I’m a senior editor at Automattic, focused on Longreads.
At Longreads, I curate the best longform nonfiction on the web. I commission and edit reported essays and personal narratives from writers and journalists from around the world, and also publish book excerpts, reading lists, and occasionally more in-depth features. Authors I’ve worked with have won a Pushcart Prize and an ASJA Writing Award, or have been recognized with a James Beard Award nomination or a notable mention in Best American Essays. You can read more about my work in this Q&A at Famous Writing Routines. Interested in writing for Longreads? Review our guidelines, get a sense of what I publish, and send me your essay submission or story pitch.
Alongside my role at Longreads, I’ve been a story wrangler at Automattic for more than a decade. Over the years, I’ve worked on a range of projects, including telling customer stories, developing writing and photography courses, managing company blogs and social channels, and crafting copy for our brands.
I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the peninsula. I’ve traveled widely, more frequently in the Before Times, often with a camera in hand. I live with my partner, daughter, and two cats in California. I’m interested in many things—mostly stuff I currently don’t have time for—and love tiny things, plants, yoga, tidepools, day parties, and the ’90s. As those who know me can attest, I’m not to be fed after midnight.
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Selected writing from the archives
- One Landscape Does Not Fit All, 2015. On the process of finding a plot of land for our tiny house on wheels.
- That Thing I Wrote That Wasn’t True: On Facts, Memoir & John D’Agata, 2012. On essayist John D’Agata and handling facts while writing memoir.
- The End of An Era, the Beginning of the Future (and the Long Moment in Between), 2011. On the unique friendships made during the underground warehouse rave scene in the mid-1990s.
- 26 Hours: The Magical State of Writing, 2013. On writing when the universe allows, even—or especially—at five in the morning.
- On (Un)organized Consumption, 2013. On productivity, information overload, and the labyrinthine-ness of the web.
- Cycle, 2016. On the cycles of subculture—and the dance underground.
- Notes on Home, Life, and Love, 2012. On wondering what home is, even after settling into my very own physical space.
- Online Mourning and the Unexpected Refuge of Facebook, 2012. On remembering a dear friend and navigating Facebook, two weeks after his death.
- On Writing (and Evolving) Online, 2013. On contemplating where, online, my writing lives.
- This Is Not a ‘Travel Blog’ (But It Is a Travel Blog), 2014. On thinking about physical places—cities, countries—as blank canvases for the mind.
- On Everything and Nothing & Reading and Not Writing, 2012. On dealing with information overload and the Twitter stream.
