I write about politics, books, and performance for The Stranger. You can hear my impersonations of Bernie Sanders and Jeff Sessions on the Blabbermouth podcast, and you can read my poems here. I’m the author of All Talk and Great Poem of Desire and Other Poems, both from Poor Claudia press.

Before I started writing for a weekly, I taught composition and creative writing as a visiting professor and/or grad student at the University of Central Missouri, the University of Washington, and Ohio University.

I’m from originally from Belton, MO.