Selected Writing

selected Works

Essay

High Country: Cannabis & the State of Maine, Maine Magazine, 2022

The Story of the 'Literary Clock' Is All Plot, HODINKEE, 2022

The Fantastic Yet Creepy Grandfather Clock, HODINKEE, 2021

Murder, Mystery, and Clockmaking, HODINKEE, 2021

A Pocket Watch With History: Henry-Daniel Capt Repeaters, HODINKEE, 2021

An Ode to the Panasonic RC-6025 in Groundhog Day, HODINKEE, 2021

Consider the Lost Glove, Real Life, 2017

Your Biggest Sunglasses, AWT, 2017

On Alice Waters, Food Systems, & Meal Kits, Bon Appétit, 2017

Breakfast: A New-Age Story, Bon Appétit, 2017

The Joy of Cooking: A History, Bon Appétit, 2017

WJZZ: A Guide to Jazz Radio’s Weird Sages, The Pitchfork Review, 2016

Writing Your Way Out: "All Who Go Do Not Return", Tablet, 2015

review

"As She Appears" by Shelley Wong & “The Hurting Kind” by Ada Limón, San Francisco Chronicle, 2022

"Book of the Other" by Truong Tran, San Francisco Chronicle, 2021

"Blood on the Fog" by Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco Chronicle, 2021

"The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, San Francisco Chronicle, 2021

For Poetry Month, Four New Collections from Bay Area Poets, San Francisco Chronicle, 2021

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett's "Look Alive", San Francisco Chronicle, 2021

Nadia Owusu's Poetic Memoir "Aftershocks", San Francisco Chronicle, 2021

On Three New Poetry Anthologies, San Francisco Chronicle, 2020

Jane Hirshfield's "Ledger", San Francisco Chronicle, 2020

Q&A, Feature, etc.

Designed to Flow: Zu Bakery & SOFTSET ceramics, Maine Magazine, 2023

Slack Tide Sea Salt & the Miracle of the Flake, Maine Magazine, 2022

Why Short Words Like ‘Sure’ Are Great Until They’re Slacked, BBC, 2021

Only Children Are Not Their Enduring Stereotypes, BBC, 2021

Interiority Enjambment: Conversations with Ada Limón, Peter Gizzi, and Tommy Pico, Take Shape, 2020

The Year That Warped Time, HODINKEE, 2020

Louisville & the Legacy of Hunter S. Thompson, GQ, 2019

Conned by the “Fake German Heiress”, Wealthsimple, 2019

Shelma Jun: Founder of the Women’s Climbing Festival, AWT, 2017

How Do You Refuel a Plane in Antarctica? AWT, 2017

Marcy: Bicycle Mechanic, AWT, 2017

Kristy & Anna Berington: Iditarod Mushers, GQ, 2016