The written word
Essays, fiction, and criticism — work that lives on the page
I came to writing the same way I came to acting: through an obsession with how people tell stories about themselves. The stage taught me that truth lives in the gap between what a character says and what they mean. The page taught me that the same gap exists in every sentence.
My writing moves between political essay, personal narrative, and fiction. The common thread is the American West — its landscapes, its contradictions, its particular way of being in the world.
Essays & Criticism
Long-form political and cultural writing
Fiction
Short stories and novel excerpts
Personal Narrative
Memoir and creative nonfiction
The frontier mythology of rugged individualism has always been a collective fiction — one that obscures the federal subsidies, Indigenous dispossession, and cooperative labor that actually built the American West.
3,200 words
Unpublished manuscript
The summer I was cast in my first professional production was the summer the reservoir dropped below the intake pipe. Memorizing Chekhov while the ranchers watched their pastures turn to dust taught me something about the relationship between art and catastrophe.
2,800 words
Submitted to The Sun Magazine
A short story set in the Nevada desert, 1962. A government surveyor's daughter discovers that the land her father is mapping for a nuclear test site is the same land her grandmother was removed from forty years earlier.
5,100 words
Submitted to One Story
A meditation on the theatrical roots of democratic deliberation, from the Athenian ekklesia to the modern campaign rally — and what we lose when performance becomes the product rather than the vehicle.
4,400 words
Published on The Dispatch
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