I’m an academic and writer, currently based in New York. I previously lived and taught in Iowa City, and before that, I was a columnist for various publications, a features editor for Vox, and a contributing editor to The Los Angeles Review of Books. My work has also appeared in The Atlantic, New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere.

In media, my work centered on left politics, media criticism, and cultural criticism. I've written a lot of short-form editorial work as well as long essays and features reporting. I have also worked as a critic, mainly of books, for publications including Bookforum, LARB, and Paste. 

I wrote a book about California, climate change, and the paranoid horror of disaster stories that don't make sense to us, but this book will likely never be published. I wrote another about living with a severe mental illness, and the historical, cultural, and discursive madness around madness itself. It’s called The Complications. You can purchase it here. I am writing another, about the mad who disappear into the streets and asylums, who die in prisons, and institutions, and on crowded subway trains. I don’t yet know what it’s called, or where you can buy it, or when you might be able to.