Writing
I’ve been a freelance writer since 2010, reporting on arts, culture, and education. I was once a staff writer at Rookie Magazine and have worked for local media such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, WHYY-NPR, and The Philadelphia Public School Notebook as well as national outlets such as Rolling Stone and MTV. The last several years I’ve focused on literary journalism and feature writing. I’m currently working on a novel on the Polish diaspora spanning the 1980s to early 2000s. You can read an excerpt here.
SHORT FICTION
Smaller Sins Newest York, 2018
At Aunt Aga’s Rookie Magazine, 2013
Running Errands Rookie Magazine, 2013
Miracle at Narberth Rookie Magazine, 2013
FEATURES & ESSAYS
Her Tender, Watchful Eye: On Olga Tokarczuk’s Books of Jacob Triangle House Review, 2022
Heike Geissler’s Grim Account of the Amazon Workplace Literary Hub, 2019
Trash Terminus: On Dead Horse Bay and the End of the World Newest York, 2018
A Dance Song, a Breakup song, a Fight Song: Metric’s “Combat Baby” Lenny Letter, 2017
What Makes Your Heart Spring: A Profile of Writer Durga Chew-Bose Sweet/Yahoo, 2017
Dear Anaïs: On Anaïs Nin’s Diaries and My Own Rookie Magazine, 2015
Communing with Carson McCullers The Hairpin, 2014
I Against I: An Essay on Being Alone Rookie Magazine, 2014
Literally The Best Thing Ever: The OC Rookie Magazine, 2014
Literally The Best Thing Ever: The Sims Rookie Magazine, 2013
INTERVIEWS WITH WRITERS & ARTISTS
Sigrid Nunez: “You Can’t Explain Death to an Animal” Literary Hub, 2018
How Joan Didion’s White Album Made it to the Stage Literary Hub, 2018
An Interview with Mary Gaitskill The Brooklyn Review, Spring 2017
Jenny Zhang: “I didn’t want to give into the white American gaze” Literary Hub, 2017
Édouard Louis on Class, Violence, and Literature as Resistance Literary Hub, 2017
A Story without an Ending: An Interview with Writer Valeria Luiselli Lenny Letter, 2017
Adapting Bolaño’s Unadaptable Masterpiece for the Stage Literary Hub, 2016
Laia Jufresa on Grief, Language, and Mexico Electric Literature, 2016
Interview: Musician Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast Rookie Magazine, 2016
Reach Out: An Interview with Sheila Heti Rookie Magazine, 2014
Making It Work: A Roundtable with Young Artists Rookie Magazine, 2014
REPORTING & BLOGGING
Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Private Mementos Lost and Found Melville House Blog, 2014
The Philosophy of Word Processing Melville House Blog, 2014
HBO to Air Sontag Doc Focused on Writer’s Private Life Melville House Blog, 2014
“Vape” Follows “Selfie” As OED Word of The Year Melville House Blog, 2014
Youth in Resistance: The Polish Scouts Teenage Film Blog, 2014
Behind the Scenes: Rebel Without a Cause Teenage Film Blog, 2012
Hello Halbstarke: Delinquent Youth in Post-War Germany Teenage Film Blog, 2012
Our Strange Obsession with Killing Young Women Teenage Film Blog, 2012
Fifty Things Millennials Know That Gen-Xers Don’t: Haylie Duff, emoji, Neopets , Lulu, Snapchat, GIFS Rollingstone.com, 2013
Valedictorians Find Success Despite School-Choice Struggles The Philadelphia Public School Notebook, 2011