I write, edit, shoot photographs, and design. At Princeton University, I do all of these things as communications manager for the Department of English.
Selected Creative and Critical Writing
For some years now, in personal writing time I’ve immersed myself in novel manuscripts, written no short stories or poems, few essays or reviews. The latest and current ms. began in January 2022 in the wake of a life-threatening brain infection, while researching a workshop for a January term now discontinued. Pieces linked to here are highlights of work before that led into the novel years.
“All the Summers Ahead,” published in Five Chapters, was a finalist for New Letters‘ Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction and is featured on Longform. As of October 2019, Five Chapters was compromised, its pages redirected to a purported tech support site, and as of January 2025 its address doesn’t resolve. The version republished here is slightly revised from the published original.
“Barnegat Bay” was edited by Matthew Salesses, who, after reading his Craft in the Real World, I think appreciated things I didn’t realize the story I’d written was doing. I wrote it with a tighter ambition than I did with “All the Summers Ahead,” and considering those pieces years later, I think BB narrowly — more fully? — reaches where it wants to go than does AtSA. You decide! “All the Summers” was for a long while my favorite, FWIW, of the pieces linked to here.
“Guns in the Family” came in one searing go after the Sandy Hook shooting and was selected for publication by then-editor of The Rumpus Roxane Gay.
Short Stories
All the Summers Ahead | Five Chapters
Barnegat Bay | The Good Men Project
Bridal Discount | The Rupture
Inheritance | Wigleaf
Craft & Criticism
Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung | The Common
Guns in the Family | The Rumpus
Her Tale Shaped by Telling: An Interview with Sarah Malone | The Rupture
Poetry
Sugaring | Sundog Lit
To Catch a Thief | Jellyfish Magazine
Selected Princeton News Writing
Articles for Princeton University’s Department of English, University homepage and other websites
Allison Carruth joins Princeton English as associated faculty
Confronting the late Emancipation novel
Visiting early modern London: ‘The Purpose of Playing’
Princeton Food Project brings together farmers, chefs, scholars, artists, activists
‘This cake is our cake’: Students explore race, culture through literature
‘Indigenous/Settler’ conference examines historical and contemporary issues across geographies
Students in ‘Asian American Family’ course connect race, kinship to create zine