WORK
Selected writing with links where available. Email or DM to request hard copies.
Nonfiction
Writing and Reburial - P-Queue, Vol. 20, Spring 2024
Torpedoes in Time: The Hidden Shared History of MoMA and the AKG - Traffic East, Issue #25, 2024
Raoul’s - Traffic East, Issue #25, 2024
The Hole at the Bottom of the Book: On Annie Ernaux’s The Young Man and Hilary Plum’s Hole Studies - Public Books, February 8, 2024
Stet: On Cutting—and Keeping—Everything - The Millions, March 2, 2023 | editor’s pick at Longreads, March 6, 2023
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Knocknarae - Irish America, 2023
Hands On - Traffic East, Issue #24, Winter 2023
Artpark: A Space Where It All Connects - Traffic East, Issue #24, Winter 2023
DakhaBrakha - Traffic East, Issue #24, Winter 2023
Postcards from the Passenger’s Seat - Shabby Doll House Advent Calendar, December 2022
Calling on Carrowduff - Irish America, November 2022
The Things We Choose - Humanities Magazine, Winter 2022
Pay It Forward - Traffic East, January 2022
Losing the Perfect Game - Traffic East, January 2022
Lloyd Cole in Conversation - Traffic East, 2021
Working Goo - Traffic East, 2020
"Dellas: A Conversation in Progress," Burchfield-Penney Art Center, October 2019
Hearers and Hearteners: The First Sixteen Years of the Hassett Family Reading, Canisius College, 2019
"I'm Still Trying To Figure It Out:" An Interview With Noah Falck, Rain Taxi, Spring 2018 Online Edition
Living Abroad in Edinburgh: An Ex-Pat Guide - The Skinny, 15 November 2017
On the Value of Karl Ove Knausgaard - Traffic East January 2017
Interview with George Saunders, The White Review, June 2016
Giving In to the Tug of Ireland - CNN, 21 August 2014
Film
I Am Here You Are Not I Love You - a short documentary currently in postproduction: click here to learn more
Fiction
"A Personal Day," Xavier Review, Vol. 39, January 2020
"The Sentimentalists," The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, Vol. 89, March 2014
"The Window," Traffic East, 2012
Poetry
"That's Not The Way It Feels," Best New Poets 2019 ed. Cate Marvin
Organizing Isolation: Half-Lives of Love at Long Distance (Linoleum Press, April 2017)
"At the funeral of an atheist I didn't know," The Public, 1 March 2017 (Poet and novelist Janet McNally selected this poem for the Judge's Award at the 2017 Just Buffalo Member's Contest.)
"On First Hearing Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones," Slipstream Issue #34
"A Red Light," Slipstream Issue #33
Journalism
The Skinny - clock all my articles and reviews for this UK culture mag here.
The End of Medicine - Traffic East, Issue #25, 2024
Amy B - Traffic East, Issue #25, 2024
In handball, tradition holds court - The Buffalo News, 2013
Food, futbol, fellowship: Mes Que soccer bar - The Buffalo News, 2013
A lone gelato freak searches for the scoop on Buffalo's best - The Buffalo News, 2013
Features on Alicia Malik, Ryan Mis, and Denn Rodriguez in Spark magazine Volume 1 Issue II and Volume 2 Issue I
The blue-eyed soul of Michael King - Buffalo Spree, April 2013
Reviews
Books
Matt Donovan’s The Dug-Up Gun Museum - Colorado Review, Winter/Spring 2023
Noah Falck's Exclusions -The Adroit Journal, Summer 2020
Matthew Bookin's Honest Days - The Daily Public, 2019
George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo - The Daily Public, 2019
Brian Castner's The Long Walk and William Langewiesche's American Ground
MK Asante's Buck - The Buffalo News, 2013
David Gilbert's & Sons - The Buffalo News, 2013
Colum McCann's TransAtlantic - The Buffalo News, 2013
Theatre
Far Away at Torn Space - February 2017
Killer Rack at Alleyway - Curtain Up 2017
Macbeth at Shakespeare in Delaware Park - Summer 2017
Visual Art
Brendon Bannon's 'Nairobi: New Works' - The Buffalo News, 8 August 2013
Alicia Malik's 'Dust' - The Buffalo News, 12 July 2013