I’m a multi-disciplinary writer with a lifetime appreciation for the fantastic, weird, and horrible.

After an adolescence spent at Latin summer camps and science fairs, and college years as an EMT and lab tech, I took a hard pivot away from job stability of any kind. I received my PhD in English and Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was a Royster fellow and, later, a teaching assistant professor. My dissertation—about Progressive-era conversations about natural resource management and the ideology of American citizenship—prompted such valuable interventions as, “What are you hoping to do with that?”* and “How, exactly, is this a literature project?”** I’ve also spent time archive-diving and writing about pulp science fiction and Antarctic exploration.

I am a graduate of Clarion Writers Workshop. My short fiction has been published in Strange Horizons and Baffling magazines, and is forthcoming from Nocturne and Kaleidotrope.

For four years, I was a professional robot impersonator.

* anonymous neighbor, personal correspondence, 2018

** anonymous dissertation committee member, viva defense, 2020