Bio

I was raised in in rural upstate New York, where I played the piano a lot and raised laying hens. I came to New York City after graduating from RPI to work in technology on Wall Street. Since then, I’ve also been a technical writer and editor at a major private university and a staff member at International Arts Movement (an arts advocacy non-profit headquartered in New York), where I launched such initiatives as the Readers Guild. In 2008, I founded The Curator, and a year later I finished an M.A. at NYU in humanities and social thought, focusing on twentieth-century intellectual history, art, and religion.

At present, I teach at The King’s College in Manhattan and work as the associate editor of Comment, and my writing – on an eclectic range of subjects – appears in a variety of magazines and other publications. I harbor a not-so-secret obsession with cooking, essays, farmer’s markets, postmodernism and evangelicalism, and food policy; read a lot of books; drink a lot of tea; and watch movies with my husband, Tom, in our tiny apartment high above the treetops.

For more, check out the Emerging Scholars Network’s interview with me in early 2010.