For most of my life, my day job was journalism. I was a reporter and editor on newspapers in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving to Hell’s Kitchen. In New York, I became a two-time columnist for ELLE, a senior editor at Glamour, and a department head at InStyle and Mirabella magazines. Transitioning from lifestyle to business beats, I became an editor and columnist at Fairchild Publications (WWD/DNR/Menswear) covering post-WTO trade, fibers, textiles, trend forecasting, and international luxury retail. Along the way, I freelanced for publications including Fast Company, Salon, Health, The Hollywood Reporter, Travel & Leisure, and The New York Times Magazine.

Writing history or biography, I use a history-from-the-ground-up approach that is currently. out of fashion. My work relies heavily on first-person narratives and techniques borrowed from sociologists and investigative reporters. My role models are Studs Terkel and the late Mike Wallace, who headed the Gotham Center for New York City, where I was a listed “expert resource” from 2003–2015. Unlike advocacy history, my work fails to provide neat answers.

My new book, which grew out of my year-long fellowship at the Leon Levy Center, was called “one of the most anticipated books of 2026” (Lit Hub). In advance of its publication, SELLING OPPORTUNITY received praise from respected historians, blurbs from award-winning authors, and a starred review from Publishers Weekly.

Since its April 28 publication, SELLING OPPORTUNITY has been named an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and has been reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, Kirkus, Texas Monthly, The Dallas Morning News, Harper’s, People, The New York Post, and Booklist, as well as regional publications ranging from The (Winnipeg) Free Press to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Kirkus put it on the list of “Nonfiction Books That Read Like Novels.” Excerpts have run in Town & Country, Lit Hub, and D Magazine.