I’m a writer, editor, and media fixer based in Las Vegas. I grew up in Aurora, Colorado, and studied English literature at Colorado State. In 2004, I moved to New York and worked in the media for eight years as a copy editor, researcher, and reporter, including as a United Nations correspondent for the Tokyo Shimbun, a daily newspaper in Japan.

In 2012, I moved to Las Vegas to earn a master’s in creative writing at UNLV. My fiction has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, Carve, the Offing, and Day One. My journalism and essays have appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, Vice, Politico, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. I was honored to win the 2015 Richard J. Margolis Award, a prize given annually to a promising new nonfiction writer.

From 2019 to 2022, I lived in Tucson, Arizona, and joined the communications team at the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, a nonprofit that provides free legal and social services to detained immigrants in Arizona. I work for them remotely now as the content development manager.

As a media fixer, I assist visiting journalists, fiction writers, podcasters, and documentary filmmakers with research and on-the-ground reporting in Southern Nevada.