writer, editor
I’ve worked in magazines and related media for over fifteen years, starting as an intern for The Believer and McSweeney’s and making my way to Condé Nast, where I was first a digital producer at Vanity Fair and ultimately the deputy managing editor of GQ. From there I went to Wealthsimple, the Toronto-based fin-tech brand magazine. I served as managing editor and an editor before going freelance. For a while I covered the “culture of time” as a columnist for HODINKEE and reviewed poetry and memoir for the San Francisco Chronicle. I also edited for BBC: Travel as well as BBC: Worklife, where I embedded for a bit to build out the Family Tree vertical. I occasionally teach craft workshops through the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and have worked as a contracted copywriter, ghostwriter, and editor for various brands and publications (request my portfolio here). Most recently I was the executive editor of Highsnobiety, where I edited the print magazine and digital features, working closely with a stellar editorial crew to bring stories to life across platforms. In 2024, the editorial team won its first National Magazine Award (General Excellence), and took home a couple Webby Awards.
Currently, New York City is home but Portland, Maine is home base. I grew up in Sacramento, California, and completed a BA in comparative literature, French and English, at Mills College in Oakland (and if I call you, you’ll see the 510 area code). I moved to New York City to attend NYU’s Journalism Institute (MA; magazine writing), and later was invited to the Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn (MFA; creative nonfiction and memoir) on a full merit-based scholarship.
My personal work has appeared in Maine Magazine, GQ, Real Life, Bon Appétit, Tablet, Guernica, The Pitchfork Review, Salon.com, and Narratively, among others, and my cross-genre chapbook has been shortlisted for multiple prizes.
Want to work together? Send me a note.