WRITING 

Personal Essays

I Never Threw Away a Book—Until I Became a Librarian Zibby Mag. December 2022.

Introduction New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State. 2022.

I Don't Buy the Outfit--I Buy the Promise The Billfold. June 2018.

This is about change The Billfold. August 2017.

The Summer I Went Back in Time The Billfold. June 2016. 

In and Out of Love at the Trocadero Theatre Philadelphia Evening Post. Issue I.III, Holiday 2015.

Who Ate It Best: My Roommates and Their Food The Corn Belt Almanac from The Head and The Hand Press. 2015.

Everything else

How Working with Libraries Can Help Sell Your Books Catapult. May 2022.

7 Satisfying, Low-Stakes Mysteries That Get Solved Podcast Review. March 2021.

I Do My Best Work in My Cheapest Notebook
guest post for Nicole Dieker. September 2019.

Reviews of New Food: Haribo Starmix  McSweeney's Internet Tendency. June 2018.

The Focused Community: How Local Instagrammers Are Changing the Way We See New Jersey Lamplighter Magazine issue #5. October 2015.

The House That Made A Writer: The Past and Future of the Stephen Crane House The Asbury Insider July-August Issue. 2015.

Coming (Very) Soon: Cardinal Provisions Jersey Bites. December 2015.

Behind the Bar A column with interviews and photographs of Asbury Park, NJ bartenders for The Anchor. 2013.


My work has appeared in: Catapult, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, NJ Indy, The Rumpus, Modern Farmer, & elsewhere.

I write about: New Jersey, relationships, money, libraries, writers & publishing, food (and where it comes from), & other things I am obsessed with.