I write essays, stories, reviews, and occasional scholarship. I am an associate creative nonfiction editor for JMWW, and read nonfiction manuscripts for Split/Lip Press. Previously, I have read fiction for The Rumpus and formerly edited for Fugue and Atticus Review.

I am also the author of the forthcoming scholarly book Frightful Harvest: Food, Landscape, and Agriculture in Folk Horror, from McFarland Books, out sometime in Spring, 2026.

I hold an MFA in creative writing from the University of Idaho, and have an MA in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and two BA degrees in History and English from Northern Arizona University.

I talk about movies on Letterboxd at keeeene (four inner E’s) and books on StoryGraph at keeeeeene (six inner E’s, thanks to inflation).

My subject matter includes some permutation of food history, the Cold War, environmental writing, creative nonfiction, pop culture studies, composition pedagogy, the horror genre, and everything else.

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