Hello. I live in North Carolina, where I was born and raised. For awhile I lived in Brooklyn, and later, Syracuse (too cold!).
I'm the Arts & Culture Editor at the INDY Week, an alternative weekly in the Triangle that was founded in 1983 and is still kicking. I also freelance.
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Here's my blog.
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And here are some links to my work: journalism, fiction, poetry, and—at my most vulnerable—playlists. Thanks for reading!
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Poetry
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"One possible implication" (The Southern Humanities Review)
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"Emily" (Ninth Letter)
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"Retrospect" (The Sycamore Review)
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"How to Change a Tire" (Typo Mag)
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"Man on Phone at Gas Station" (Hobart)
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"The Visit" (Prelude)
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Rachel Eats the Nasturtium" (Prelude)
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"Olive," "Esau," Route" (The Carolina Quarterly)
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"A Line Prayer" (No Tokens)
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"Vespers" (Brink)
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"Fable" (The Yale Review)
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"In South Carolina, Outside the Party" (Commonweal)
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"Plot" (Casserole Series Journal)
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"Transit," "Heat Wave," "Charlotte" (Community Mausoleum / Coma Journal )
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"After the Alice Neel Exhibit," "High Tide" (La Lancha / New Mundo)
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Fiction
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"Dead Dog" (Subtropics)
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"Neighbour" (The Stinging Fly)
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"Driving to Ithaca" (The Southeast Review)
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"Certainty" (Joyland)
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"About Dust" (Joyland)
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"Rabbits" (Angel Food Magazine)
Select INDY Week features
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"Can K&W Cafeterias' Legacy of Affordable Southern Staples Outlast the Pandemic?"
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"How Bida Manda and Brewery Bhavana Harbored a Culture of Abuse Behind a Progressive Facade"
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"The Remarkable Story of the Drive to Preserve Nina Simone's Childhood Home"
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"On Her Sophomore Album "Dream Rooms," Kate Rhudy Goes Her Own Way"
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"Thirty-One Days Inside the First North Carolina Starbucks to Organize for a Union"
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Select INDY Week profiles and interviews
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Other work
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"Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s Sweetly Southern-Gothic Family Album" (NewYorker.com)
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"“I’m Very Much in Love with Where I’m From”: William Christenberry’s American South" (NewYorker.com)
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"Spreading the Bad News" (The Baffler)
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"How Nina Riggs Found Brightness in Her Darkest Hour" (The Village Voice)
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"Claire Messud, Elena Ferrante, and the Tortured Intensity of BFFs" (The Village Voice)
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"“The Bachelor” Meets “The Handmaid’s Tale” in Catherine Lacey’s New Novel" (The Village Voice)
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