Wordcraft | Storycraft | Other things
I studied creative writing at The New School in New York City and playwriting at HB Studios. I've written (unproduced) scripts for television and film. I've honed my craft through participation in three prestigious writing workshops in 2024, where I was accepted after a competitive selection process: New York State's Writers' Institute, Napa Valley Writers' Conference, Futurscapes Fall Seminar. I was a member of the final Write of Passage Fall 2024 cohort, where I participated in a 5-week online writing bootcamp that included 2000+ writers across 72 countries, all aimed at applying more rigorous processes to online writing. I believe "we need fiction like we need water," and I'm currently at work on my first collection of short stories.
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Below are links to articles I've written for The Philadelphia Citizen, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media outlet that combines solutions-based journalism, calls to action and civic-minded events with the goal of bolstering democracy in the American city where it was born. For more of my writing, check out my experimental weekly newsletter: A Short Distance Ahead, in which I'm exploring the creative process of narrative design and storytelling by drafting essays in tandem with generative AI tools.
Philly-based science journalist Catherine Price reframes our phone habits as a relationship rather than a moral failing, creating space for honest reflection in an otherwise charged conversation
A 2024 election post-mortem — but not about who won or lost. This is about something bigger — how we’re losing our grip on shared reality. It’s about how two essays, written 15 years apart, help explain why our collective imagination has become so warped that we can barely process political reality anymore.
Frankford-born-and-raised Joseph Earl Thomas has been getting raves for his new memoir, Sink, as a story of his journey out that, really, is about how he’s stayed in
