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Editing

On Air & IRL

Radio appearances

Review: Palehound, Eye On The Bat | All Things Considered
Review: Jenny Lewis, Joy’all | All Things Considered
Books we love: NPR’s top picks for 2021 memoirs | Weekend Edition
2021 Music Preview: ‘Little Oblivions,’ ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’ | Morning Edition
2020 Book Concierge: Four Romance Recommendations | Weekend Edition
2020 Was The Year Of Dancing By Ourselves | Weekend Edition
One Big Breath And A Blazing Guitar: 2019’s Best Moments In Music| All Things Considered
‘Women Are Not One Thing’: The 2018 Turning The Tables List Shines With Diversity | All Things Considered

Podcast hosting & conversations

I’m also a frequent guest on All Songs Considered‘s New Mix and New Music Friday episodes; these appearances are collected on my NPR byline page.

Talks and panels

Interview: Bartees Strange, All Things Go festival, September 2022
Guest lecture: University of Alabama: Gender, Music and Popular Culture, February 2022
Panelist/Presenter: “There’s No Place Like Homo: Revisiting The Home In Queer Pop” at MoPOP (Virtual) Pop Conference, September 2020
Panelist: NPR Music live listening party for Fiona Apple’s Fetch The Bolt Cutters, April 2020
Panelist: Writers panel at Dana Hall School: She Sails conference, April 2019
Panelist/Presenter: “My Revenge is Death: Unpacking the Riot Grrrls’ Soundtrack to Killing Rapists” at MoPOP Pop Conference, April 2019
Panelist: “Turning The Tables: 21st Century Edition Live,” Lincoln Center Out Of Doors, July 2018
Panelist/Presenter: “Pop Personae and Fashioned Bodies: An Analysis of Pop Styles and Soft Masculinities” at MoPOP Pop Conference, April 2018
Organizer/Reader: “You Have to Read This!” reading series, May 2017
Panelist: The Ladycast Live at DC Podfest, November 2016

Writing

(You can find a full list of my clips for NPR here.)

Selected Criticism

Ian Sweet, Sucker | 2023, Pitchfork
Squirrel Flower, Tomorrow’s Fire | 2023, Pitchfork
Helena Deland, Goodnight Summerland | 2023, Pitchfork
Mitski, “Bug Like an Angel” | 2023, Pitchfork
Palehound, Eye On The Bat | 2023, NPR Music
Jess Williamson, Time Ain’t Accidental | 2023, NPR Music
Jenny Lewis, Joy’all | 2023, NPR Music
boygenius, the record | 2023, NPR Music
Fever Ray, Radical Romantics | 2023, NPR Music
Plains, I Walked With You A Ways | 2022, NPR Music
Quinn Christopherson, Write Your Name In Pink | 2022, NPR Music
Sharon Van Etten, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong | 2022, NPR Music
Frances Quinlan, Likewise | 2020, NPR Music
Book review: Andrea Long Chu, Females | 2019, NPR
Book review: Vivien Goldman, Revenge Of The She-Punks | 2019, NPR
Girlpool, What Chaos Is Imaginary | 2019, NPR Music
Robyn, Honey | 2018, NPR Music
Courtney Barnett, Tell Me How You Really Feel | 2018, NPR Music
Hop Along, Bark Your Head Off, Dog | 2018, NPR Music
Soccer Mommy, Clean | 2018, NPR Music
Palm, Rock Island | 2018, NPR Music
Mitski, Puberty 2| 2016 (Bitch Magazine # 72)

Selected profiles & interviews

Mannequin Pussy’s Music Is Built on Big Emotions (and Inside Jokes)
A short profile of one of Philly’s finest punk bands | 2024, New York Times
On making your best work through balance
A conversation with writer and podcaster Kelsey McKinney about working across mediums and being driven by enthusiasm | 2023, The Creative Independent
The eternal paradox, and ‘Quantum Criminals,’ of Steely Dan
A conversation with the writer and illustrator of a book dedicated to the characters of the Steely Dan discography | 2023, NPR Music
Rewind, Be Kind: On ‘Home Video,’ Lucy Dacus Writes Her Own Rules For Friendship
On how Dacus turned her childhood memories into her best album yet | 2021, NPR Music
On ‘Ignorance,’ The Weather Station Compels You To Care
An interview with Tamara Lindeman about climate crisis and songwriting | 2021, NPR Music
Anjimile Just Can’t Wait To Be King
An interview with the Boston songwriter about their bold, brave debut | 2020, NPR Music
Torres Explains The Fear And Desire Behind Her Most Self-Determined Record Yet
An interview about writing music while desperately in love | 2020, NPR Music
Trixie Mattel: America’s Next Top Folk-Country Comedy Drag Artist
An interview with the drag superstar| 2018, NPR Music
Power In Everything: Priests’ Katie Alice Greer On Making Space For Art
A conversation about a hard year with a visionary artist | 2017, NPR Music
After A Detour, Land Of Talk’s Elizabeth Powell Finds A New Way Home
An interview with the singer-songwriter about being lost and found | 2017, NPR Music
Interview: Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak
A conversation about virtuosity and courage | 2016, She Shreds

Essays & features

Le Tigre’s Feminist Rage Has Always Been Fun
On the joy of seeing a Le Tigre reunion show | 2023, NPR Music
Yoko Ono’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Made Me Rethink What It Means To Be An Expert
On discovering Ono’s oeuvre and embracing intimidating art | 2021, NPR Music
Perfume Genius Expands Rock’s Body Language
A critics’ conversation about embodiment, queerness and one of the year’s best albums | 2020, NPR Music
How One Of Music’s Biggest Stars Almost Disappeared, And How Her Legacy Was Saved
On Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s unlikely and necessary comeback story | 2019, , NPR Music
The Motherlode
A collection of testimonies to the eight women who invented American popular music | 2019, , NPR Music
The Old Disappearing-Reappearing Band Trick (Or, How Millennials Rescued Duster’s Music From The Abyss)
On the re-emergence of slowcore’s beloved underground heroes | 2019, NPR Music
Women Are The Fabric Of 21st Century Pop
On Turning the Tables’ second season | 2018, NPR Music

Hi! I’m a writer and editor currently based in Brooklyn. I’ve written for places like The New York Times, NPR Music, Pitchfork, and The Creative Independent, among others. If you’d like to hire me to write or edit for you, please be in touch.

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From 2016 – 2023 I worked as an editor for NPR Music, where I wrote and edited features for the site, produced the weekly NPR Music newsletter, and helped run projects like Turning the Tables. I also appeared on podcasts, including All Songs Considered and Pop Culture Happy Hour. Plus I got to produce a few Tiny Desk concerts (like this one and this one).

Before that, I worked for NPR’s Events team, on the Tiny Desk Contest.

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I studied anthropology (B.A.) at Vassar College and intercultural and international communication (M.A.) at American University’s School of International Service. My research primarily focused on gender, labor, and cross-cultural feminism.

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For fun, I make music under the name Keeper and a newsletter called constellations.

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Selected recent criticism