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I'm an award winning author, journalist, radio host, gardener, plant-based Neapolitan pizza expert, cocktail aficionado, hyper-competitive amateur bowler, social media skeptic, degrowth proponent, animal protector, and enthusiastic advocate for bucket hats.
Big news: My autobiographical story The Vacantlands won Boulevard Magazine's Non-Fiction Award for Emerging Writers. It'll be in print sometime in 2025. I'll organize some readings once that happens.
Small news: I joined Bluesky. Sometimes on walks I write uplifting messages on random trash. Bluesky's like that.
Other words I've written have been published in Western Humanities Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Space Squid, Swamp Ape Review, Tikkun, Hyperallergic, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Big Windows Review, and dozens of other magazines, newspapers, literary journals, and artist books. My living history interview with AFRICOBRA co-founder Gerald Williams is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. And I've created several radio shows for WQRT, an experimental art, music, and community radio project by Big Car Collaborative, including the acclaimed, pandemic-inspired series Apocalypse Mixtape, and the music-centered artist interview series Art Racket. 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 a little karate school in Indianapolis. I live part time in an old house with a vegetable garden and garage dojo in Muncie, Indiana, and part time in a historic condo in Evanston, Illinois, with a lovely courtyard where neighbors chat and let their dogs rub noses.
Big news: My autobiographical story The Vacantlands won Boulevard Magazine's Non-Fiction Award for Emerging Writers. It'll be in print sometime in 2025. I'll organize some readings once that happens.
Small news: I joined Bluesky. Sometimes on walks I write uplifting messages on random trash. Bluesky's like that.
Other words I've written have been published in Western Humanities Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Space Squid, Swamp Ape Review, Tikkun, Hyperallergic, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Big Windows Review, and dozens of other magazines, newspapers, literary journals, and artist books. My living history interview with AFRICOBRA co-founder Gerald Williams is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. And I've created several radio shows for WQRT, an experimental art, music, and community radio project by Big Car Collaborative, including the acclaimed, pandemic-inspired series Apocalypse Mixtape, and the music-centered artist interview series Art Racket. 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 a little karate school in Indianapolis. I live part time in an old house with a vegetable garden and garage dojo in Muncie, Indiana, and part time in a historic condo in Evanston, Illinois, with a lovely courtyard where neighbors chat and let their dogs rub noses.
