I'm an LA-based writer/editor, currently serving as an audio acquisitions editor for Brilliance Publishing/Amazon. (I also help to run the LA-centric culture newsletter Loose Land, which you should check out if you’re in the area!) Prior to Amazon, I served as publishing director at Zest Books for six years, and spent another year as a contributing editor at FLOOD Magazine. I've written two nonfiction books, and my criticism has appeared in Brooklyn Magazine, Slate, and more. I have more bad ideas than good, and I have a fair amount of trouble distinguishing between the two. My good ideas include: a book of literary maps, an adaptation of Brothers Karamazov set in the wild west, and an end to platform-specific streaming guides (NYT’s Watching feature just didn’t go far enough!); my bad ideas include: an update of Ivanhoe set at Medieval Times; a new Christmas mascot known as Christmas Crab, and intentionally choosing to watch and root for United States Soccer Men.
I’m currently working on an ASCII-art based picture book about an ebullient stick figure named Gor, and a very conventional screenplay that absolutely does not feature any Christmas Crabs.
Illustration by Andrew DeGraff.