i eat the whole pepper.

I'm an author, journalist, art historian, radio host, filmmaker, public speaker, plant-based Neapolitan pizza expert, cocktail aficionado, hyper-competitive amateur bowler, social media skeptic, degrowth proponent, animal protector, maker of antiracist choices, and enthusiastic advocate for bucket hats. Words I've written about art have been published in Boulevard, Western Humanities Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and more than a hundred other magazines, newspapers, books, museum exhibition catalogs and digital publications, and my living history interviews are part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. I am the creator and host of several radio shows on WQRT, an experimental art, music, and community radio project by Big Car Collaborative, including the acclaimed, pandemic-inspired series Apocalypse Mixtape. My speculative short stories, any of which you could easily read over a glass of Ramazzotti and a cigarillo, have been published in Space Squid, Swamp Ape Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Big Windows Review, and multiple other fine publications. I hold a degree in filmmaking from Vancouver Film School, degrees in Theater and Photojournalism from Ball State University, and a 2nd degree black belt from Broad Ripple Martial Arts Academy. I live part time in a little brick house with a vegetable garden and garage dojo in Muncie, Indiana, and part time in a condominium in a historic building in Evanston, Illinois, where there's a lovely courtyard in which we neighbors gather to chat and let our dogs rub noses.