writing

reporting

As a full-time journalist since 2022, I’ve received local recognition for my coverage of news and culture in Pittsburgh. My investigations and opinion pieces have covered everything from transit to protests. I currently work as managing editor of Pittsburgh City Paper.

West Deer fracking
Canceled gender-affirming care
Trump chumps
Pittsburgh rail infrastructure
Sisyphus, Darwin and UPMC
Yinzer ragebait
What’s up with the West End?
Pittsburghers for peace
What happened to Pittsburgh’s nightclubs?
Genital Shame
Lamp of Murmuur
Cloud Rat
Kim Kelly
Amenra
Benelux Fury

music journalism

I restarted my dormant writing career at metal blog The Toilet ov Hell covering personally interesting music. From there, I branched out to covering underground metal, hardcore, and experimental music for outlets such as Bandcamp, Invisible Oranges, and Revolver.

creative writing

I hold an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Florida and studied with Booker Prize winner Marlon James at Macalester College. My stories and poetry have appeared in national journals, and my debut poetry chapbook, The tender violence of an American man, is out now. I’m currently shopping my first novel, Bonn, a genre-blending historical work set in West Germany during the early ’90s.

“I miss my yinzer friends”
“Extra Fingers” (print)
“Air Quality”
“Paint” (archive)
“Sanguine”
“What I found surveying a well site in Greene County” (print)
“Storage”