Hello! I’m a writer and editor currently based in New York, though in the last decade I’ve also lived in Colorado, California, and Texas. Appropriately enough, much of my writing—including a series of linked personal essays I’m currently working on—explores the relationship between place and identity.
My creative writing and journalism have appeared in Orion, Literary Hub, Outside, The Guardian, High Country News, Catapult, and elsewhere. My essay about the Utah monolith was listed as notable in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021.
I received my MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University in 2014. That year, I also attended the inaugural Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference as a recipient of the Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship. Other honors include a teaching fellowship in Columbia’s Undergraduate Writing Program, two residencies at Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, Colorado, a Recess Critical Writing Fellowship, and being selected as an artist-in-residence for the 20th anniversary of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. I’m currently a member of the Elsewhere Studios Board of Directors.
I’m the editorial director of Reasons to be Cheerful, an online magazine dedicated to solutions journalism, founded by musician and artist David Byrne. From 2019 to 2023, I was an editor at Wildsam, an Austin-based publisher of literary travel guides. I edited more than a dozen books on places including Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Joshua Tree National Park, Zion National Park, and the Colorado Rockies. Before that, you could find me at Pacific Standard and High Country News.
