New Jersey native, longtime Philadelphia resident, living in Northeast Ohio since 2003. Former youth hockey coach, current shelter dog walker, NPR and podcast fan, Celtiphile, geek.
BACKGROUND
Editor, Cleveland Free Times and Cleveland Scene, 2005-2010. (Free Times and Scene merged under the latter’s name in 2008.)
Founder and executive director, Ohio City Writers, a nonprofit youth creative writing center, 2010-2013
Contributor, Explore, Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s member magazine, 2013-2016
Contributor, FreshWaterCleveland.com and The New York Times, 2010-11
Managing editor, Scene, 2003-2005
Staff writer / managing editor / web editor, Philadelphia City Paper, 1996-2003