writing

essays

• I Am the Universe (Mothership, 2026)
• Conflagration/Words Wasted on Michael Greene’s Bataille’s Wound (Cleveland Review of Books, 2025)
• A Dig into Leechburg’s History Reveals Nicknames, Costumes, and Lots of Wishful Thinking (Pittsburgh City Paper, 2025)
• Paris, of, Appalachia (or How to Bet on Two Words and Lose) (Cleveland Review of Books, 2024)
• A Paris, of an Appalachia (or How to Go to Hell) (Cleveland Review of Books, 2024)
• The Green Punctum (Petrichor, 2024)
• Paris! Appalachia! (or How to Live Where You Are) (Cleveland Review of Books, 2024)
• From Samantha’s HIV Test to Stonewall’s First Brick: How LGBTQ+ Individuals Engage with Conspiracy Theories (Pride Source, 2024)
• On Choosing to Not Choose a ‘Chosen Family’ (Pride Source, 2023)
• Stomping Spots: Queer Feelings for a Bad Bug Headed to Michigan (Pride Source, 2023)
• Protozoa—in Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-matter, eds. Joela Jacobs & Agnes Malinowska (Punctum Press, 2023)
• This Pride, ‘I Love My Hometown Whether it Loves Me Back or Not’ (100 Days in Appalachia, 2023)
• Fool’s Gold: The Bad News of The Golden Girls‘ Freida Claxton (The Gutter Review, 2023)
• A Bridge in Winter (Weathered, 2023)
• Wanted: A Gay Warhol (Bunker Review, 2023)
• Plant Daddies Everywhere (Pride Source, 2023)
• Masterclass in Pleasure (Dirt, 2022)
• Uprooting a Renter’s Garden (Edge Effects, 2019)
• Desiring Tumblr, Porn, and the Archives (Archivists on the News, 2019)
• Material Provocations in the Archives (Journal of Critical Library & Information Studies, 2019)
• Tribulus Troubles: Wildflowers in the Edward Palmer Papers at the National Anthropological Archives (Smithsonian Collections Blog, 2017)
• What if the Trip Follows You Home (Steer Queer, 2017)
• it’s it (Sundog Lit, 2017)
• But She’s Still Got Those Teeth (Cactus Heart, 2016)

artist interviews, profiles & reviews

• No Clear Image: On Michelle Henning’s A Dirty History of Photography (Pittsburgh Review of Books, 2026)
• Fun, if Useful: Pittsburgh’s Almost Perfect Press (Cleveland Review of Books, 2026)
• The Open Questions of B Kleymeyer’s As Others Have Before (Howlround, 2025)
• Meet Your Gaming Neighbor: Angela Washko Joins University of Michigan Arts Scene (Pride Source, 2024)
• Unclear Sun: Notes on Centa Schumacher’s It is longing to be seen (Bunker Review, 2023)
• Art Heists True and False: Lyndon Barrois Jr. at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Observer, 2023)
• Dorothy Santos is Learning to Sound Like Nobody Else (Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, 2023)
• Fat (Bunker Review, 2022)

book reviews

• A Present for Eyes: Notes on Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini’s Gender Without Identity (Cleveland Review of Books, 2025)
• Keeping the Negative: On Ann Marks’ Vivian Maier Developed (Cleveland Review of Books, 2022)
• The Photographic Moment: On Kate Palmer Albers’ The Night Albums (Cleveland Review of Books, 2022)

reported pieces

• The Case for the Campus Art Museum in an Age of Cuts (Observer, 2026)
• Phipps’ Towering Century Plant has Seen a Lifetime of Changes to Pittsburgh’s Environment (Pittsburgh City Paper, 2026)
• Middle Node and What It Takes to Build an Art Scene Outside New York and L.A. (Observer, 2026)
• Urban farms in some neighborhoods face the prospect of development and an uncertain future (Pittsburgh City Paper, 2025)
• The Farmers are Watching: Michigan’s Farm Porn Fascination (Pride Source, 2024)
• Urban Farms in Pittsburgh Can Feed a Hunger, If They’re Allowed to Grow (Pittsburgh City Paper, 2024)
• Law(n) Breakers (Pittsburgh City Paper, 2024)
• Horton Hears a They/Them: The Linguistics of Nonbinary Speech (Pride Source, 2023)
• When They Go Low, We Go Sideways: Finding Queer Light in Dark Times (Pride Source, 2023)