Peddler of Words
Recovering Filmmaker
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4/13/2023
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (Michigan State University Press) has just published “The Jim Croce Question.” It can be accessed through Project MUSE or the Scholarly Publishing Collective.
3/1/2023
Sport Literate will be publishing “On the Morning After the Crash” in a new anthology, Best Americans: Our Honored Writers. This essay was Notable in the Best American Essays Series (2017), edited by Leslie Jamison
08/03/2022
I’ve just been named a Finalist for the 2022 Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize at Fourth Genre for my piece, “The Jim Croce Question.”
06/15/2022
I’ve been accepted into a manuscript development program at Humber School for Writers, where I’ll be working for two semesters with Trevor Cole on completing my debut novel, Life Imitates Life.
04/18/2022
Guns over China has just been published at The Antigonish Review.
News
From “The Jim Croce Question”
“Whenever I see a payphone, I’m back in 1993 and pulled over on a stretch of I-89 where it cuts through the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The U-Haul trailer hitched to my Jeep holds everything I own. A payphone, which sits on a rise with a hard green spotlight above it, glows down on me eerily like a derelict monolith. All I can see beyond it are the faint dark lines of the mountain range and still more darkness after that. It’s cold out there, and empty.”
Fourth Genre, forthcoming
“Karma, as it is spoken about popularly, is the idea that the good and the bad that one does in the world circles back on the subject. People have good or bad karma based on how they treat other individuals, animals, and the environment. Help someone cross the street and find money under the mattress. Cut in line at the grocery store and get pancreatic cancer. This is the logic (or illogic) of karma.”
Sport Literate (Volume 10, Issue 1)
From “On the Morning After the Crash”
Flashback
The first essays I wrote were intended for a book, A Man Without a Camera. This book has changed shape over the years. This is the original “book trailer” I cut together for it.