New York City-based writer with 20 years’ experience, editorial and commercial. Mainstream journalism for: The New Yorker, New York, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Film Comment, Mens Journal, GQ, Details, NPR's "All Things Considered," and online outlets. Brand work for Harry’s and bigger brands bound by NDAs, writing for NGOs including a Bill Gates-founded global health initiative. Co-authored the New York Times bestseller The Tao of Wu with RZA, as well as The Wu Tang Manual, and continue to help others mold and shape their own true stories.
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I came up at just the right/wrong time. Educated and trained in the analog era, I spent my youth immersed in print, vinyl, and celluloid. My MBA years went to hip-hop and lit-crit, during which I learned to turn arguments and fistfights into commercial prose. As contributing editor at New York, I wrote NYC stories for a global audience. As staff writer at Spin, I was nominated for a National Magazine Award in feature writing, had articles selected for best-of anthologies, and, for my writing in Film Comment, was w-a-a-a-y too psyched to have a piece appear in an NYU textbook on “the art of the essay.” (Bonus: not under “How Not To Write.”)

Today, I’m a print-trained writer in a digital world. This world is short, fast, and bright. Its cities are guarded by grammar and usage. I’m not a native speaker of its language, but I’m hard-wired to meet its needs. I do so with the experience of writing before, during, and after prose’s migration into digits. To speak clearly and authentically, and to create stories from the building blocks of human life.