About Me

In doses of varyingly modest degrees, I am an editor, writer, and researcher. I am deeply detail-oriented, resolutely tireless, uncommonly professional, and inveterately self-deprecating to the point that it pains me to include the first three things in this list.

I like to think of editing as a form of radical helpfulness. To achieve this is to be equally affable, punctual, egoless, and confident. In a boy band, I would be the quiet one, although lately I’ve gotten really into LARPing as an extrovert.

I am currently an associate editor at the University of Chicago Press, where I acquire new titles for Chicago’s esteemed list of reference books and writing guides. Please see my editor bio page on the Chicago site for more information about my acquisitions interests.

I earned my PhD from the Department of English at Saint Louis University, where I also taught courses in writing, literature, and film. Before moving to Chicago in 2017, I was the managing editor at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri. My freelance writing and editing interests include art, music, and architecture, although like many recovering academics, I am drawn to and interested in anything that has to do with saying something about something else.