About Me
I’m a graduate from Hendrix College, where I discovered my passion for creative writing despite the best efforts of academic advisors in my two actual majors, Health Sciences and Spanish. I’ve dabbled as a literary magazine editor in the past (helping to produce two editions of Scintilla and one edition of The Aonian), and I’m certified through Trinity College in London to teach English internationally to speakers of other languages. Really, though, I consider my crowning achievements in life to be completing the St. Jude’s Marathon in Memphis, Tennessee, reading the entirety of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and fooling my brothers into sitting down and chatting with me for an hour each month with the excuse of making a podcast together.
About the Old Portfolio
The old portfolio, linked here, was an old collection of my fiction and creative-non-fiction works that I created while I was learning what it meant to be a writer (i.e., following ultimately artificial deadlines I’ve set for myself) and develop my own writing voice (i.e., not getting into wandering Dickensian descriptions that, while entertaining to me, also made me sound unbearably stuffy). I stopped posting them after these two goals were more or less achieved, and after realizing that they were functionally just shouts into the void, and more importantly, shouts without any quality control. Some of them did end up decent—“Grappling with Gio,” for instance, is a shout whose echoes still shape my thoughts today—but a lot of the old stuff is pretty cringe-worthy. Still, it’d feel disingenuous to take it down. We’ve all had our awkward phases.