I was born and grew up in Akron, Ohio. I live in Newark, New Jersey.

I teach the Bard Early College Seminar Sequence.

I blog at The Off Beat. I contribute to the webzine Zona Motel.

My writing is in Jacobin, Vice, Labor Notes, Hobart, and other places. 

I wrote two books: Walls (novel, 2014) and A Very Small Forest Fire (stories, 2018).