Now

Right now (as of: 4/15/2025), I am:

• Producing freelance podcasts for clients including National Public Media, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Free Space, Eat My Words, and two new shows currently in development. Contact me if you’re interested in discussing a project!

• Writing the first draft of a novel (following Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s StoryBoard workshop cohort, Haley Jakobson’s Writing With Confidence class, and Maggie Stiefvater’s Writing the Raven Cycle class).

• Writing a poem every day in April with a group of fellow writers.

• Participating in StoryStudio’s YA Novel-in-a-Year program throughout 2025.

• Serving as a member of the ACLU of Illinois’s Next Generation Society.

• Tutoring high school students in reading, writing, and history subjects.

• Writing once a week on my Substack, You Signed Up For This!

• Reading: Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, by Florian Illies

• Listening to my April playlist feat. Lucy Dacus, Samia, Bon Iver, Jensen McRae, and more