I participated in Great Weather for Media’s live reading series
My review of Ricardo Wilson’s An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories was featured in Brooklyn Rail
I am a member of the writing group The Bonfire Collective, and my short story “Knives of the Old World” appears in our collection Crick! Crack!
The Bonfire Collective participated in San Francisco’s annual LitCrawl series at the Black & Brown Social Club
I received an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts, where I wrote my thesis, MORNING IN AMERICA
MORNING IN AMERICA is speculative fiction that follows Ammon and a group of men who have fled their lives due to America’s second Great Depression, only to stumble upon a gigantic, abandoned building complex. Stuck in the wilderness, Ammon spends his time trying to understand what the complex is while looking back at the decisions that brought him there without his loved ones. First 50 pages:
I’ve written about online proxemics and the need for personal space in a digital world…
…and the need to create “digital public parks” in online spaces…
…and somehow snuck a reference to one of my writing heroes, David Milch, in a blog post about enterprise social networks
When I was at Zendesk I got to work on some fun data journalism projects. We dove into things like:
Predictors of customer satisfaction: Are people with @gmail emails addresses easier to please than those with @yahoo? Or what happens when a customer service rep ends an email with “yours truly” instead of “sincerely”?
Retail and the holiday season: What was the impact a busy holiday season can have on things like customer service wait times?
Customer satisfaction: What’s the best time of day to contact a company for support? What’s the best contact method?
I’ve conducted many interviews of business leaders and analysts, but Geoffrey Moore was probably the most interesting. We got into Darwin, publishing in the digital world, and the difference between cheating and collaborating.
Most of my freelance work has vanished to the land of lost socks, but I’m particularly proud of this review I wrote of “In the Brilliant Light”, an exhibit by Photographer Prakash Sach
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