I love to write and tell stories. I’m an MFA candidate in fiction (and stealth nonfiction, don’t tell) at Colorado State University, where I’m a Gill-Ronda Fellow and associate editor at Colorado Review. I’ve read for waaay too many literary magazines, including The Common, where I served as editorial liaison (aka “the leader of the readers”) for four years. I’ve also interned with Random House, the MIT Press, and Folio Literary. Ask me about my novel-in-progress Basement Tapes, which is a love letter to sasscore, the NYC rock revival, and being a teenager in the aughts. My essays appear in The Washington Post and in the anthology Red State Blues: Stories from Midwestern Life on the Left. I have fiction forthcoming in The Iowa Review.

I’ve been in academia most of my life, as a teacher, student… usually both! I kicked off my decade-plus in the classroom with a Master of Arts in Teaching (7-12 Mathematics), earned at Stanford. I went on to teach creative writing, podcasting, math, computer science, and lots of people how to counter-coil. I’m the former director of John Carroll University’s radio education program; I ran train-the-trainer and professional development programs for Google and Code.org; I taught middle and high school computer science for many years, and I still help grade the AP CSA exam every summer. I currently teach undergraduate creative writing at Colorado State University.

I caught the college dj bug at Stanford and I’ve been bonkers about “making radio” ever since. I’ve hosted many music shows including “The DJ Never Has It” (indie/punk) at KZSU and “Blank-Wave Arcade” (new wave/goth/industrial) at WJCU. My audio narrative “Goth Grows Up” was a Finalist for the Missouri Review‘s Miller Audio Prize; “Pictures of the Kids,” produced with my mom, was a runner-up in KCRW’s 24-Hour Radio Race. I also wrote and produced the 7-part investigative true crime series “Lost In Panama” in 2022. I’m very proud to have facilitated two Sound Of Us workshops for Ideastream Public Media, training members of the Cleveland community to write and report short podcasts. Check it out below!