I’m a journalist, essayist and fiction writer based in Denver. I grew up in the suburb of Aurora and studied English at Colorado State. Upon graduating, I moved to NYC and worked for eight years in the news media, including as the United Nations correspondent for the Tokyo Shimbun, a daily newspaper in Japan. I then earned a master’s in creative writing at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and hung around southern Nevada for a total ten years working as a writer, editor and adjunct instructor. For five years, including three in Tucson, Arizona, I was the Content Development Manager at the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, a nonprofit that provides free legal and social services to detained immigrants in Arizona. In 2025, I relocated with my family to Denver, where I work now for the city and county and continue to plug away in my spare time at a novel I began as an MFA student in Las Vegas.

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, Longreads, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Politico. I was honored to win the Richard J. Margolis Award, a prize given annually to an emerging nonfiction writer, and to receive a fiction fellowship from the Writers’ Institute at the CUNY Graduate Center.