I’m a writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. I grew up in New York City, in Washington Heights, but now have found my home in the Rust Belt region. I’m a contributor at Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Whitehot Magazine, Newcity, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, and a number of other local and national outlets including Belt, where I am on the masthead, and YNST. I serve as managing editor of UP, an international graffiti magazine. I got my start writing about art hanging out with graffiti crews in New York, particularly documenting the lives of “The Boys from the Heights,” the progenitors of the graffiti movement in the late ‘60s. I fell in love with how writing about art allowed me to push words to their limit by describing the pictorial and what interesting people I got to meet along the way. 

I currently am a digital editor at TABLE, a luxury lifestyle brand based in Pittsburgh. I also founded my own arts and culture publication, Petrichor, a web magazine focused on essayistic art writing in Pittsburgh. I won a Simon Rockower Award from the American Jewish Press Association for Excellence in Arts and Culture Reporting for my work with the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle in 2024.

I see myself as a multihyphenate (to borrow a word from Candida Alvarez, whose show titled “Multihyphenate”  I covered) and try to find inspiration in everything. I’ve worked in visitor services at the Carnegie Museum, as an usher at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club, as a contract book designer for a publishing house, a hostess at a bohemian tea bar, and on the content team for travel Youtuber Drew Binsky—the youngest person to visit all 197 countries—among other odd jobs. I also self-published a novel, which you can find online. But whatever I’m doing, I’m passionate about telling stories and investigating the mystery that is being alive.

Bio photo by Grant Catton. / Cover photo by Mr. Man for Artists’ Yearbook