I’m a skilled and versatile editor with experience across many formats, including features, criticism, essays, and fiction. In my capacity overseeing books coverage at Esquire, I edited viral features about everything from the New York Times bestseller list to the broken book blurb system to the challenge of launching a debut novel. I also edited dozens of reported features outside of books, like this gonzo journey into the world’s biggest machine gun shoot, this investigation into the secret crisis affecting college RAs, and this deep dive into the Dark Sky movement. As for criticism, I’ve edited essays about subjects including the allure of time travel stories, the rise of “sad boy literature,” and the enduring appeal of Carrie. As the Fiction Editor at Esquire, I also commissioned and edited original works of fiction by writers like T.C. Boyle, Jess Walter, Rumaan Alam, Brandon Taylor, Molly Ringwald, Naomi Alderman, and Joe Mungo Reed.

I’m also experienced in conceiving and editing ambitious print and digital packages—like Esquire’s annual Summer Fiction Week, my digital reinvention of the magazine’s annual Summer Reading issues from the 1980s and 1990s. 2024’s outing included a deep dive into celebrity book clubs, an assessment of what AI means for book publishing, and a fourth outing of the resurrected Napkin Project, Esquire’s storied flash fiction series, which I was proud to revive in 2023.

I’ve been privileged to work on narrative nonfiction with fantastic writers like Karen Russell, Andrew Sean Greer, C Pam Zhang, Rachel Khong, and Blythe Roberson. It’s been a true joy to edit such personal pieces as this meditation on uncles, this touching remembrance of a cousin lost to AIDS, and this wild journey through New Jersey’s Philip Roth festival. My experience editing memoir also includes Esquire’s “Dispatches From the New Middle Age” column, where I edited literary writers as they thrashed out big ideas about midlife. I loved working on this column with writers including Viet Thanh Nguyen, Joshua Ferris, Jeff VanderMeer, Heather Havrilesky, Garth Greenwell, and Ottessa Moshfegh, among others. 

I also know my way around adapting a book excerpt for a magazine, whether it’s fiction or nonfiction. In the fiction space, I’ve edited excerpts from novels by Stephen King, James Ellroy, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, and Bret Easton Ellis, among many others. In the nonfiction space, you’ll find my handiwork on a great variety of pieces, including this investigation into the race to develop Covid-19 vaccines, this immersive feature about a high school basketball championship in Montana, and this essay about Sloane Crosley’s porn star uncle.

I also have experience editing interviews and profiles about everyone from writers like Chuck Palahniuk and Brandon Sanderson to performers like Gillian Anderson and Sandra Oh.