I’m a writer and Adjunct Professor of Anglophone literature and culture. My work focuses on the intersection of poetry and poetics, media studies, and theories of the public sphere. I hold a PhD in English and American Literature from New York University, and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY). I am the author of Someone Like You (Gauss PDF, 2017), Simple Location (above/ground, 2023), and the creator and co-editor of the collaborative writing project Executive Orders (punctum books, 2025). My critical and creative writings have appeared or are forthcoming in journals and periodicals including Chicago Review, Criticism, Textual Practice, Boston Review, Prelude, The Brooklyn Rail, The Distance Plan, Urban Omnibus, and Supermachine, among other publications, and I’ve been a Writer-in-Residence at Yaddo. I also serve as an organizer and editor for the multi-sited poetics working group and small press, the Organism for Poetic Research, and as a contributing editor for the climate-crisis-and-culture platform, The Distance Plan. Since 2012, I’ve taught courses on literature, critical theory, environmental justice, and creative writing on the campuses of CUNY Brooklyn College, CUNY Queens College, and New York University.
My scholarship considers how the massification of Anglophonepublic spheres in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries altered the ways we conceptualize and engage in spaces of public representation. My current book project, Containing Multitudes: The Social Logic of Lyric in the Mass Public Sphere, argues that a group of minoritized and social-dissident poets, including Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, Bruce Andrews, Lisa Robertson, and Claudia Rankine, played a decisive role in the articulation of a massified idea of subjectivity and collectivity in post-1945 North America. Containing Multitudes is undercontract with the Contemporary North American Poetry Series at Iowa University Press. An article based on my research, “Lyric Noise: Lisa Robertson, Claudia Rankine, and the Phatic Subject of Poetry in the Mass Public Sphere,” was published in the journal Criticism in March of 2019.