Freelance journalist | Reported features, profiles, narrative nonfiction
I write reported features, profiles, and essays about character, discipline, strength, and what pressure reveals about a life. I’m especially interested in how people test themselves physically to discover human capacities beyond the physical.My work has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, Men’s Health, AGNI, On Being, and The Threepenny Review. I’m open to assignments and actively pitching reported features and profiles.
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New York magazine
A reported feature on the city at dawn: workers finishing shifts, small rituals of exhaustion and release, and the strange fellowship of early morning.
The Threepenny Review
A reported narrative about an attempt to learn long‑haul truck driving on the streets of Manhattan. Anthologized in Table Talk: From The Threepenny Review (Counterpoint Press).
Men’s Health
A reported feature on sexual role-playing, drawing on interviews with psychologists, researchers, and other experts to examine intimacy, fantasy, and modern masculinity. Featured as one of the issue’s cover stories.
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The New York Times (Opinion)
On Greenwich Village’s resistance to the grid, and the history preserved in its disorder.
On Being
On burying a grandfather and confronting death as a physical reality.
AGNI
On a great-grandfather’s late-life return to speaking Italian, and the enduring pull of migration, memory, and hope.
I’m the founding editor of Deadlift Magazine, a forthcoming publication focused on long-form profiles and reported features about self-command, broader notions of strength, and the physical and psychological demands of high-level performance. In building it, I’ve conducted in-depth interviews with elite strength athletes and coaches including Žydrūnas Savickas, Eddie Hall, Stefi Cohen, Andy Bolton, Ben Pollack, Andrey Malanichev, Tamara Walcott, Chris Duffin, Jan Todd, and Bill Kazmaier.