I’m a writer, editor, and media fixer based in Denver. I grew up in Aurora, Colorado, and studied English literature at Colorado State. In 2004, I moved to New York and worked in the media for eight years as a copy editor, researcher, and reporter, including as a United Nations correspondent for the Tokyo Shimbun, a daily newspaper in Japan.

In 2012, I moved to Las Vegas to earn a master’s in creative writing at UNLV. My fiction has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, Carve, the Offing, and Day One. My journalism and essays have appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, Vice, Politico, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. I was honored to win the 2015 Richard J. Margolis Award, a prize given annually to a promising new nonfiction writer.

In 2019, I moved to Tucson, Arizona and joined the communications team at the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, a nonprofit that provides free legal and social services to detained immigrants in Arizona. I worked for them for five years as the Content Development Manager.

As a media fixer, I have assisted writers, podcasters and filmmakers with research and on-the-ground reporting in Las Vegas and elsewhere.

In 2025, I relocated with my family to Denver where I work for the city and continue to plug away in my spare time on the novel draft I began as an MFA student in Las Vegas.