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. I am also honored to be the sponsoring editor of Chicago’s Phoenix Poets book series.

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.