MFA, Arizona State University, PhD, University of Houston. Author of the novels The Atmospherians and People Collide, which was named a New York Times Critics’ Pick and a best book of 2023 by Vogue, NPR, Vulture, Them, Electric Literature, and others. Their essays appear in The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Cut, Vulture, GQ, Vogue, The Atlantic, Tin House, and elsewhere. SLC, 2025–
Graduate Courses 2025-2026
Master of Fine Arts in Writing
Nonfiction Craft: How They Met Themselves
Seminar—Spring
WRIT 7813
The rapid expansion of digital media over the past two decades has given us unprecedented access to the lives of strangers. From social media and message boards to gossip sites and newspaper archives, the internet has encouraged all of us to breach the barricades of one another’s privacy for the simple pleasure of looking. Observing histories of Hollywood fandom, true crime, and our new parasocial fantasy lives, this class will examine the areas of overlap between the self and the other, focusing on whether or not it is possible to find redemptive value in our collective voyeurism. Each student will spend the semester researching an individual of their choosing; final papers will focus on determining parallels between the life of the writer and the life of their subject.