I am a writer, essayist, and critic. My work has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times Book Review, New Republic, the LARB, the Believer, the Millions, the Rumpus, TLS, the CBC, and Lit Hub, where I am a contributing editor. I’m also a founder and contributing editor to Crime Reads. Presently, I cover crime fiction for Book World at the Washington Post, as well as writing essays and criticism for other publications.

I moved from New York City to Toronto in the summer of 2019. My husband, a dual citizen, grew up in Toronto and we had been thinking of leaving New York when things fell into place. Now, we look prescient; but living as an ex-pat watching America roil from the neighbor’s lawn has been sobering. I made good use of lockdown by doing a low-residency MFA in creative nonfiction at Goucher College. I also have a Masters in English Literature from Rutgers University (I am technically ABD and plan to remain so eternally).

My brain is a busy place. I am an inveterate multitasker; I read up to eight books at once and am always writing or researching multiple essays. I think fast, I talk fast, and I write fast. But I am a consummate and constant editor, of my own work and the work of others. My academic training made me a careful and close reader, while my many years of reviewing have given me the superpower of conjuring book recommendations on just about any subject. I'm also a collector of many things: MOD dresses, midcentury Scandinavian vases, etiquette books, Japanese notebooks, old essay anthologies, Lilli Ann coats, and back issues of the Partisan Review.

My brain is also a capricious place. My current book project is tentatively called Between the Migraine and the Sigh, a narrative nonfiction book that recounts my transformation from rising literary critic to chronic migraineur. I also take a broad look at the enormous cultural impact of migraine, the most common neurological problem in the world with a rich history reaching back into antiquity. As an inveterate researcher and lover of mysteries, after my first migraine in 2003, I became a literary and diagnostic detective. Twenty years later I am still determined to crack the case. I closely examine the writings and art of fellow migraineurs like Emily Dickinson, Jeff Tweedy, Joan Didion, Sigmund Freud, Edgar Allan Poe, and Virginia Woolf, as well as interviewing fellow migraineurs and top researchers in headache medicine. The migraine brain has only begun to be mapped and studied. In classifying migraine as a neurodiverse condition, the productions of migraineurs are a result of seeing the world more sharply and making original connections that result in revolutions from Darwin's theories on natural selection to Van Gogh's brilliant landscapes.

My long-range plans include an essay collection about permutations of style (in fashion, in prose, and as a marker of identity or affinity); a book about Gone Girl for Fiction Advocate; and reworking a book-length manuscript, We Are All Modern, about the intersection of biography and modernism. I won an Honorable Mention in Best American Essays 2022 for this essay about Gertrude Stein's visit to Bloomsbury which is derived from the preface.