oh hi

I’m a strategy consultant turned writer based in Washington, D.C. My debut novel, THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR, was published by the Overlook Press (ABRAMS) in 2021, and the paperback is out now. My nonfiction has appeared in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and The Common, and I write a quite useless Substack newsletter. My literary agent is Sarah Fuentes at UTA and I’m represented by Berni Barta at CAA for film.

I studied English at The University of Virginia and have an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Prior to business school I spent five years working in the art world, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I’ve been at Accenture ever since, though I no longer do client work; I’m now an internal subject matter expert, specialized in sales & pricing strategy.

Art mirrors life, and I’m also the inventor of a recursive estimation algorithm that’s been patented in the U.S. and Australia. Life mirrors art, and the new novel I’m working on now is about probability (and basketball).

the portrait of a mirror

ABRAMS Overlook Press

A reinterpretation of the narcissus myth as a modern novel of manners about two young, well-heeled couples whose lives tangle and cross over the course of a summer.

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nonfiction

“Prom” (Still Alive, Issue 03, Summer 2024)/ On the prom plot, memory, and Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle

“Mirror and Window Both: The Brief Superabundance of Aubrey Beardsley” (Literary Hub, February 2023)/ On the man whose art outshone the words of Oscar Wilde

“Anxiety and Irresponsibility: What Is to Be Done About Literary Moralism?” (Literary Hub, October 2022) / On the rampant conflation of fiction and history

“7 Novels that Subvert Social Norms” (Electric Literature, May 2021) / On books that resist the pressure to conform

“Delusions of Grandeur” (The Common, February 2021) / On Versailles and Vivaldi and the aftermath of the 2016 & 2020 elections

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