I’m a writer and editor with work in Wired, The Guardian, The Baffler, The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, Vice, CNN, Index on Censorship and more. I was previously a reporter in Beijing, where I covered champion oyster shuckers and the mysterious preponderance of misspelled Linkin Park T-shirts. I’m now in Pittsburgh, where I’ve written about the shadowy forces behind viral hedgehogs and the horrors of Duolingo’s Mexican restaurant. 

I write serious things and funny things; I also don’t believe those categories are mutually exclusive. Monthly dispatches are on Substack at Pennsylvania: The Newsletter.

See my selected writing here.