In 2025, my essay “In the Matter of the Commas” was published in The American Scholar, shared on Arts & Letters Daily, and awarded the Adam Zagajewski Prize in the Committee on Social Thought. The essay belongs, along with “Do Something, Take Pains” (The Sewanee Review) and “A Girl’s Hair Caught Fire” (Liberties), to a triptych of portraits that I drew of Renata Adler. Each essay poses a biographical question: To what extent can Adler be found in her style, her literary taste, or her personal quirks?

I also write art criticism, mainly for The Threepenny Review, reviewing shows about Peter Hujar and the seasons in Japan. I have work forthcoming, in different venues, on Primo Levi and on South Korean photography.

In 2025, I was a nonfiction fellow at the Vermon Studio Center and a Katharine Bakeless Nason scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Photo: Jeju Island, August 2024.