I’m a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of two books of narrative nonfiction. My essay collection Mine, a meditation on ownership and loss, won the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Prize and the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, was a silver winner for essays in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, was longlisted for the Pen Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award (as well as being named one of LitHub’s favorite books of 2018). My newest book, To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories, out now, is a hybrid memoir that mixes philosophy with journalism and personal essay. It was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named a best book of the year by NPR and LitHub in 2023. I was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in Feature Writing, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Fulbright Student Grantee to Colombia (where I lived and taught in Santa Marta). I teach in the creative writing program at Arizona State University and live in Tempe with my partner, two kids, and our adorably ugly pup, Oki.