I am a writer, editor, and translator based in Philadelphia.
I am a founding editor of Pinko Magazine, the editor of Christopher Chitty’s
Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy and Capital in the Rise of the World-System (Duke UP, 2020), and the translator of Guy Hocquenghem’s
The Amphitheater of the Dead, which was a 2020 Lambda Literary Award nominee. Before that, I served as an editor for the New Inquiry from 2011–2018. My writing has appeared in Bookforum, the Nation, the Baffler, Lux, Parapraxis, and the New Republic, among other publications, often about the political or historical dimensions of sexuality.
I also work as a developmental editor, copy editor, proofreader, and indexer. I have served as a copy editor for print publications such as Tank and V Magazine, publishers like Verso and Inventory Press, and worked with private clients in academia, the arts, and architectural history to develop proposals, manuscripts, and successful grant applications. I have also worked as a ghostwriter to produce op-eds, exhibition text, and short books.
To commission my writing or to hire my editorial services, please
contact me for rates and availability.
A selection of recent or representative work:
- “Kiyoshi,” at Octopus journal. A profile of the late Philadelphia HIV/AIDS activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya, commissioned for the inaugural issue of the online publication of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.
- “What Was Sexual Liberalism?” at Pinko Magazine. An overview and reconsideration of the character of the sexually revolutionary twentieth century.
- After Accountability, Pinko Magazine with Wendy’s Subway. I collaborated on an investigation into the movement history of the concept of accountability.
- fag/hag, co-written with Madeline Lane-McKinley. A short book about friendship, COVID, grief, history, and revolution.
- “The Traffic in Children,” at Parapraxis Magazine. An attempt to decipher the “groomer” panic with reference to the capitalist form of the family.
- Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System, an academic monograph tracking the emergence of capitalist sexual relations through a history of crackdowns on male homosexuality at moments of geoeconomic transition by the late Christopher Chitty, which I edited and prepared for publication after his death.
- The Amphitheater of the Dead, by Guy Hocquenghem, translated for Guillotine Press. A short sci-fi memoir by a pioneering French gay activist and theorist.