I'm an associate editor at First Things magazine. Formerly, I taught in the Composition Program at UC Irvine, where I earned an MFA in Creative Writing in 2014. My fiction and nonfiction has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Vice's Terraform, The Saturday Evening Post, First Things, The Independent, The New York Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, ABC's Religion and Ethics, New Haven Review, The Smart Set, Return, The American Mind, Amazon's Day One, FLAUNT Magazine, Juked, Gargoyle Magazine, and elsewhere. In 2016 I received an Emerging Writers Grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.