About the Author

My historical novel with magical realist elements, The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment, was published by D.X. Varos in February 2020. Due to the sad, untimely passing of the publisher, the book went out of print, but in October 2025 it was republished as an e-book through my own Strange Violin Editions imprint. I’m also the author of A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel, published by Strange Violin Editions in 2011.

My fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines, including Embark, Hotel Amerika, and Bayou, and an essay of mine was selected for the Notable Essays list in Best American Essays 2011. I’m also a creative writing residency fellow of the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

I grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and then studied philosophy and classics at Brigham Young University. My graduate studies included a Fulbright Fellowship year at the University of Hamburg in Germany and degrees in cultural history from the University of Chicago and in public policy from The George Washington University. I currently live in Washington, DC.

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