Writing
I'm trained as a fiction writer (M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh) and have published fiction, poetry, essays, and genre-bending work in journals and publications including Guernica, diagram, Glimmer Train, The New Guard Review's BANG!, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Adroit Journal, and Art Review.I also write and produce audio documentary, and I'm a founder of the storytelling collective Cool Molecules Media.
Recent fragments
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collage-from-life-sept-1940
Collage with a life magazine and miscellaneous photos
A few winter collages with flowers
Dried rose petals and some fine paper from an old magazine
In praise of: the em dash
Robots, you can’t have it
How to stop worrying and love the poem
The robot builds a bomb, with instructions in iambic pentameter
Recent publications
www.post-gazette.comJoshua D. Graber: A plant-based trip with Michael Pollan
When Michael Pollan’s latest book, “A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness,” arrived in my mailbox, I texted a friend who loves...
www.post-gazette.comReview: The muses of Andy Warhol
“I find women more interesting than men,” Laurence Leamer told me last month when we caught up. Leamer was in Pittsburgh to promote “Warhol’s...
www.theadroitjournal.orgA Review of Alex Higley’s True Failure
In 1997, during the first wave of a reality TV deluge that remains ongoing, a cast member of MTV’s Road Rules named Holly spoke about the nickname her cast used for the crew: “Big Brother.” Holly s…
- www.post-gazette.com
Review: Mara Van Der Lugt on the morality of having children
A few years ago, a healthy, professedly happy Mumbai businessman named Raphael Samuel publicly threatened to sue his parents — both lawyers —...
www.artreview.comGenre and the Newer Newness
Danielle Dutton’s ‘Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other’ attempts to galvanize literary art’s sense of perpetual death. What new forms can she offer?
www.mrbullbull.comMetaphors Toward ________________ | MrBullBull