Writing

I’ve been an assistant editor at O, the Oprah Magazine and a freelance writer published in a variety of outlets. I also co-created and co-wrote a weekly newsletter highlighting leftist political victories, and organically built a list of 10,000+ highly-engaged subscribers.

Selected clips:

The Believer

• Interview with Mike Schur, producer/writer/director of Parks and Recreation, The Office, Saturday Night Live

• “An Image is a Relationship” - interview with director and cinematographer Kirsten Johnson

• “A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings” - interview with actor/writer/comedian Andy Daly

• “We’d Just Let the Sky Tell Our Story” - interview with Breaking Bad writer Moira Walley-Beckett

• “It’s the Story You Enter, Not the Character” - interview with Aimee Bender (part of a series about writers who teach)

O, the Oprah Magazine

• “Five Things Yoko Ono Knows for Sure” - interview with Yoko Ono

• “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” - review of Karen Russell’s short story collection

• “Life After Death” - review of Damien Echols’ autobiography

Vulture

• “The Good Place’s Optimism is a Salve for Despair in the Trump Era” - essay about solidarity and resistance after the Trump election