WORK IN PRINT

 

Music and arts writing for A Gathering of the Tribes, The Brooklyn Rail, Global Rhythm, Goldmine, Guitar Player, New Music Box, The New York City Jazz Record, Signal to Noise, Time Out-New York and The Village Voice (USA); Coda and Musicworks (Canada); L’Ecran Fantastique and ImproJazz (France); Jazz.pt (Portugal); Jazz.ru (Russia); and The Wire (England). Online outlets include: All About Jazz, I Care If You Listen, Perfect Sound Forever, The Squid’s Ear and WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.

 

News articles published in City Limits (New York City), The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Bridge and The Phoenix (Brooklyn), The Norwalk Hour and Greenwich Time (Connecticut) and In These Times (Chicago).

 

Fiction collected in Little Apples: A Story Cycle (2011, Lulu) and Sentences (2012, Lulu) and in A Gathering of the Tribes and Joyland.

 

CAREER EXPERIENCE

 

Assistant City Editor

 

• Herald News (March, 2001 – June 2002)

Oversaw staff of 16 reporters for 37,000 circulation daily in Passaic County, NJ. Responsible for assignments, editing and special projects

 

Staff Writer

 

• Greenwich Time (January, 1999 – February, 2001)

Covered health, housing and social services for 14,000 circulation daily in Greenwich, CT.

 

• The Hour (August, 1997 – January, 1999)

Covered police, education and local government for 16,000 circulation daily in Norwalk, CT

 

 

Founding Editor

 

• The Squid’s Ear (December, 2003 – August, 2005)

Designed, edited and wrote for online jazz and experimental music magazine

 

• Brooklyn Metro Times (October, 1994 – March, 1996)

Wrote and edited as part of collective team publishing quarterly political journal

 

• The Paper (August, 1992 – May, 1993)

Designed, wrote and edited for free Chicago political monthly

 

 

Copy Editor

 

• The Village Voice (May, 1994 – August, 1997)

 

• RewardTV (August, 2003 – March, 2005)

 

 

Broadcast

 

• WFMU (2007-present)

Producer/host, The Brother Lucy Show and Miniature Minotaurs (2009-present); additional work as board operator and other station duties.

 

 

AWARDS & HONORS

 

• First Place – Best Feature Writing, Newspaper Under 50,000 Circulation, Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists, 1999

 

• Honorable Mention – Best Feature Writing, Newspaper Under 50,000 Circulation, Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists, 2000

 

• First Place – Greeenwich Time, Newspaper Under 50,000 Circulation, Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists, 2000

 

 

EDUCATION & INTERNSHIPS

 

• Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Master’s degree, 1997

Course work focused on local political coverage and science and health reporting

 

• Illinois State University, Bachelor of Arts degree, 1990

Degree in Philosophy with minor in Psychology

 

• Les Brown (January – May, 1997)

Researched and prepared profiles of journalists for Les Brown’s Encyclopedia of Television

 

• Michael Moore (October – December, 1996)

Research assistance for book Downsize This

 

• In These Times (May, 1992 – May, 1993)

Edited, fact-checked and proofread copy, and aided in research and administration.