Work

I help manage Food & Wine's extensive (and well-used) recipe archive as well as edit news and food stories. I write a lot too. Some highlights:

●  13 Singaporean Recipes That Bring the Hawker Center Home
●  6 of Ferran Adrià’s Most Ingenious Recipes for Home Cooks
●  9 Recipes That Capture the Spirit of Nouvelle Cuisine
●  18 Camping Recipes for Every Hour Outdoors, From Sunrise to S’mores
●  These 24 Fall Cookbooks Deserve a Spot on Your Shelf

Producer and strategist, helping set up editorial processes, whip up print and digital assets, and ensure the creation of meaningful, relevant, and useful work

I provide editorial, communications, and branding consulting; public relations support; event design and production; editorial and content strategy; and writing and editing anything and everything text-based, from print brochures to ecommerce FAQs to white papers, blog posts, infographics, social messaging, press releases, interview series, and more. This work—in tech, education, real estate, travel, food and beverage, and internal corporate communications—has been for clients like Conway+Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Newstand (now Daycast), Chegg, and Aboard.

Writer and editor of both print and digital features, reported articles, essays, criticism, guides, and more

I wrote my first freelance piece—a book review for Publishers Weekly—in 2011. In the decade and a half since, I’ve written features for GQ and Oxford American and Hemispheres; travel and food pieces for Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine and Atlas Obscura; science, nature, and technology articles for Popular Science and Esquire and Audubon; and innumerable profiles, reviews, and reporting about books for Bookforum, The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Buzzfeed; among many other types of writing and outlets. When it existed, I was a contributing writer to Amtrak’s onboard magazine, The National. I've also worked on a coffee table book about food and wine around the world for National Geographic. In 2024, I was awarded a writing residency at the Cill Rialaig Arts Centre. Some highlights:

●  ‍a history for Oxford American of an Outer Banks family—the Midgetts—and their home’s dismal ecological future
●  a feature for GQ about Star Trek’s utopian fan culture and its official 50th anniversary convention in Las Vegas
●  ‍a profile for Brooklyn Magazine about Roxane Gay’s hard-earned writing career
●  ‍a feature for Atlas Obscura about a Yoruba religious community in South Carolina that claims national sovereignty
●  ‍an oral history for Brooklyn Magazine about the publishing industry’s failure to diversify
●  ‍a personal essay for Hemispheres about Salzburg, The Sound of Music, and growing out of girlhood
●  ‍a profile for Next City about the traffic engineer who invented the word “gridlock”
●  ‍an investigation for Brooklyn Magazine about an abusive book blogger
●  ‍a critical essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books about the end of Poirot (the tv show) after 25 years in production

Founding Editor in Chief for a new magazine about work

I conceived of and launched the weekly digital magazine, Roadmap, which was funded by an early-stage startup. Some highlights:

●  “You deserve a tech union,” an essay by Ethan Marcotte
●  “Chase Strangio can be a law freak,” an interview with the ACLU's Chase Strangio
●  “Gaming's warped mirror,” a review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gita Jackson
●  “Recession story,” a comic by Sara Lautman
●  “In all of my dreams, the words I love you,” a poem by Hanif Abdurraqib

Associate Editor for Stripe's quarterly print and digital magazine about software engineering at scale

Increment was Stripe’s first editorial publication: a quarterly print and online magazine about how teams build and operate software systems. There I edited writers like Paul Ford, Anil Dash, Liz Fong-Jones, and Kent Beck, while helping plan issues, produce the print and online editions, manage social media, and build the Increment Store.

Books Editor for the digital and monthly print magazine that explored New York’s most populous borough

I managed Brooklyn Magazine’s editorial coverage of books and the publishing industry for both print and web. In addition to writing several pieces a month, I also solicited and edited freelance writers for three digital books and culture pieces per week. I also edited a print poetry series, publishing poets such as Hanif Abdurraqib, Tyehimba Jess, Danez Smith, Tommy Pico, José Olivarez, and Wendy Xu. My “Diversity in Publishing” series was featured in The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Bustle, The Toast, among others, and my profile of of Saeed Jones was named to Longreads’ “Best Culture Writing of 2016.”

Book Review Editor covering several hundred popular and academic books each month

My first magazine job was at the book review section of the nearly 150 year old magazine. (It was founded, in 1876, by Dewey Decimal creator Melvil Dewey.) There I oversaw the editorial coverage of fine arts, science, memoir, travel, performing arts, among other nonfiction categories of books: assigning them for review and then editing those reviews—hundreds per month—for print and online editions of the magazine. I managed a roster of over 200 book reviewers while also writing myself: book reviews, reported features, essays, and columns, as well as author interviews for print and online editions of the magazine. In a very early-aughts move, I also founded and ran the LJ Tumblr, which garnered coverage from business-to-business as well as mainstream outlets such as GQ and the New York Observer. I led panels at ALA and BEA on Tumblr and libraries (one of which was mentioned in the New York Times) and organized a Library Journal-branded offsite ALA event for librarians on Tumblr.