May 8, 2025 | Book Launch, News, Poems
Celebrated the NYC book launch of IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF A SHADOW: NORTH AMERICAN RESPONSES TO FERNANDO PESSOA with a contributor reading at P&T Knitwear on the Lower East Side. Read with Sharon Dolin, Lynn Emanuel, Katherine Vaz, Erica Ehrenberg, Aileen Bassis,...
Feb 15, 2025 | Book Launch, New Book, News, Poems
Two poems, “Ambient City” and “Painted Sky,” appear in the anthology IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF A SHADOW: NORTH AMERICAN RESPONSES TO FERNANDO PESSOA (Madhat Press, 2/2025), edited by Charles Cutler, Dan Mahoney, and Gaby Gordon-Fox. “Fernando...
Jul 2, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction, Essays, News
Rolf Potts — author of VAGABONDING and other bestselling books on travel — interviewed me for his Travel Writers series. An excerpt: “What is the biggest reward of life as a travel writer? I’ll offer three. Never regretting any travel you’ve done or will do....
Apr 12, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction, Essays, News
Delighted to share this episode of the Great New American Essays podcast. River Teeth editors Jill Christman and Mark Neely discuss their nonfiction lit mag’s editorial vision and highlight two essays from the most recent issue—including my “Notes on...
Dec 20, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction, Essays, News
A new essay, “Notes on Glamour, Edie, and Me,” appears in River Teeth (Issue 25.1, December 2023). This piece of creative nonfiction is driven by my teenage fascination with Edie Sedgwick and the opening question: “Do we outgrow the obsessions of our...
