About Me

I am an associate editor at the University of Chicago Press, where I commission and acquire guides to writing, editing, publishing, and academic life. Please see my editor bio page on the Chicago site for more information about my acquisitions interests.

Some recently released projects about which I’m especially excited include Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense by the Emmy, Peabody, and Writers Guild Award–winning writer Elliott Kalan; Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD, edited by Chloe Martinez and Lisa Van Orman Hadley with a foreword by Rebecca Makkai; and a new edition of the New York Times bestselling The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism by James Geary.

I am also honored to be the sponsoring editor of Chicago’s Phoenix Poets series, for which I’ve coordinated the publication of The Orange Tree by Dong Li, JOAN by Jake Rose, and many other deeply moving books.

I like to think of editing as a form of radical helpfulness. To achieve this is to be equal parts affable, punctual, confident, and egoless. I am very good at taking notes and very bad at dancing, a combination that has gotten me in trouble on at least one occasion.

I earned my PhD from the Department of English at Saint Louis University, where I also taught courses in writing, literature, and graphic novels. Before moving to Chicago in 2017, I was the managing editor at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri.