Writing

My writing has been featured in numerous publications, including The Charleston Post-Courier, Creative Loafing, The Huffington Post, The Korea Herald, The Korea Tribune, Make magazine, Pixelsurgeon, The Observer, Open Global Rights, Open Sewer, Skyscraper magazine, UX Collective, UX Magazine, and Zmag.com. I also wrote regularly about user experience design and content strategy for the Razorfish publications Headlight Blog, Scatter/Gather, and Slant. And I’ve written extensively as a featured/contract writer on Medium. You can find a portfolio of my writing on Muck Rack.

NON-FICTION

In addition to writing about topics related to the field of user experience design, I’ve enjoyed writing articles related to cultural criticism and the arts for many years. I’ve also researched and written extensively on the topic of immigration in the United States, as well as topics related to privacy, human rights, and global affairs.

FEATURED PROFESSIONAL WRITING

IMMIGRATION

During the lead-up to the 2016 election, I began writing a series of articles on immigration in the United States, especially as it relates to undocumented immigrants. Many of these pieces appeared on both Medium and The Huffington Post. A version of my piece on transgender asylum seekers also appeared on Open Global Rights.

Here's a partial listing of those articles:

CRITICAL WRITING

I wrote many book reviews over a couple of years or so for Creative Loafing when I lived in Greenville, SC. I also contributed art reviews and feature articles to Creative Loafing in that time. I reviewed electronic music for the now (sadly!) defunct sites, isnotwas.com and Pixelsurgeon. For about a decade, I wrote dozens of music reviews for Skyscraper magazine, too. A few samples of my critical and essay writing follow.

FICTION

In 2000, I was a winner in the South Carolina Fiction Project. My story, "Daddy Buys a Buick," was published in the Charleston Post-Courier. The previous year, I received an honorable mention in the same contest for my short story entitled "My Occidental Asia." Open Sewer also reprinted "Daddy Buys a Buick" here.

The May/June 2000 issue of Poets & Writers featured a mention of "Daddy" and an accompanying photo.

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
— Margaret Atwood