I am an online editorial producer at Comedy Central. I am a Mainer living in Brooklyn.

I’m a former daily contributor at Comedy Central’s Indecision blog, where I wrote about the 2008 American and Canadian elections, the financial crisis, the health care debate and more. I’ve also written for the Awl, LIFE.com, AOL News, the Daily, the Portland Phoenix, Bundle.com, McSweeney’s and Yankee Pot Roast.

In 2010 I founded the Scratchpad Reading Series, a quarterly fiction/nonfiction event in Portland, Maine. Before that I was the co-founder and editor of Ruined Music, a website that published essays about songs lost to heartbreak, car accidents, prom traumas and other disasters. The site was featured on public radio, MTV News and in other national media.

Because I enjoy puttering around in libraries, I worked as a research assistant to authors Stacy Schiff (A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America) and Christopher M. Finan (From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America). Because I enjoy spending entire days in movie theaters, I helped start the Maine International Film Festival in my hometown of Waterville, serving as the festival’s first assistant to the director. I wasn’t old enough to order a drink back then, but I was old enough to work the popcorn machine.

Current enthusiasms include bicycles, the life and times of Grover Cleveland, watercraft of all types and Bruce Springsteen.