My essays have been named notable in The Best American Essays 2016, 2017 and 2019. “What A Bullet Can Do” also won the 2019 Maine Literary Award for Short Nonfiction. Other works of creative nonfiction have appeared in Hazlitt, The Southeast Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Hippocampus, Literal Latte, The Common, The Keeping Room, Princeton Alumni Weekly and elsewhere. Prior to writing nonfiction, my fiction appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Broken Bridge Review and elsewhere. I am the co-author of Legendary Locals of Pottstown (Arcadia, 2013), which tells the history of my hometown through the stories and images of critical figures, past and present. My memoir, Standoff, about my father, guns, and an unintentional shooting from my childhood is out on submission as of Fall 2022. I am represented by Gail Hochman of Brandt & Hochman.
I have an MFA from Bennington College, a master’s in city and regional planning from Rutgers University, and a degree in psychology from Princeton University. After teaching English at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire for 5 years, I currently split my time between Maine and New Jersey. I have given readings at KGB Bar, (the late) Cornelia Street Café, Princeton Arts Council, The Word Barn (Exeter, NH), Book & Bar (Portsmouth, NH), and Quiet City Books (Lewiston, ME).
