Hello.
I write about life and about books—ideally both at the same time. I write essays, book reviews, and experimental nonfiction.
I’m working on a nonfiction book, represented by Elias Altman, Massie McQuilkin &Altman Literary Agents. Since 2024, I serve as the associate editor for nonfiction at the Exposition Review, a literary magazine based in Los Angeles.
In my career, I’m a full-time copywriter at Wells Fargo. I ride a bicycle to work, even though I live in L.A.
Here is my archive.
2024
I was an official artist at the 2024 Bombay Beach Biennale in the Coachella valley, where I made Nonfiction Circle, a site-specific piece of performative writing. Here’s a selfie from the day.
2023
2022
2019
- Reviewed by Ella Haselswerdt for Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
- Reviewed by Megen de Bruin-Molé for Classical Review.
- Discussed in Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism (Springer International, 2022).
Essay: “Theoretical introduction: the subject of the human,” co-written with GM Chesi.
Essay: “Malfunctions of Embodiment: Man/Weapon Agency and the Greek Ideology of Masculinity.”
Translation: “How to Become a Cyborg.” Bloomsbury.
Review: Feminist clowns and fairy tale in Bait: Kill the Princess. In Broadway Baby.
Review: Butch Princesa by Andrea Spisto. In Broadway Baby.
2018
Book review on props and physical objects in ancient Greek theater. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2017
Film review. Discreet, Travis Matthews’ ballad to gay Texans (Berlin Film Festival)
Golden Exits fails to glisten at the 2017 Berlinale.
2016
Dissertation: Ph.D. thesis on the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles. Exclusion in Sophocles.
Poem: “Saint Giles.” in Poetry Nights III – an anthology, published and edited by The Soho Society Club.
2015
Interview: Biographer Clifford Slapper on the life of Mike Garson. Bowie’s Piano Man.
Book review: The Berlin Diaries by Noel Maurice. Remembrance of the 1990s.
2014
Interview: Lauren Oyler on writing Berlin.
Book review: A 1970s childhood in Thatcher’s Britain. Springfield Road by Salena Godden.
2013
2012
Book review: on staged murders and reported deaths in Greek tragedy. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2011
Greek lyric arrangement: Brian Elias’ Electra Mourns–premiered at BBC Proms, 2012
2009
Translation: “Books and Literacy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies.
Bio
I was born in Berlin, Germany, and studied Classics in London and at Yale. I worked a few years in London, then wrote my PhD on the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, back in Berlin. I taught in the Classics department of Humboldt University, a place filled with the bronze busts, portraits and figureheads of great classical linguists and historians; I also taught at the center for Gender studies.
But something pulled me to Finance—maybe it was London, where the financial services industry breathes its influence into every last corner of every little street. So I first joined a venture capital firm, where I did Press, and worked with financial journalists. Then, I moved to California, where currently I’m a corporate writer at Wells Fargo, the bank that began as a stagecoach hauling gold in the Old West.
I’m always scribbling at some book review, essay, literary concept art or experimental hybrid work. I collect and curate the best stranger-than-fiction nonfiction in my (very occasional) newsletter, The Glossy Ruin Quarterly.