Fiction

Vantage Point, forthcoming, MCD/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Take Me Apart, 2020, MCD/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

A young archivist’s obsession with a photographer's mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile new life in northern California.

Peer-Reviewed Academic

My academic research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American fiction, film, and television. In particular, I study the development of the legal procedural genre in the context of historical changes to American criminal procedure. Kind of like a pre-history of Law & Order. Publications below are related to that work.

“Reserving the Kill: The Suicide Ban and Criminal Punishment in Code-Era Hollywood Film,” in Film History (Winter, 2019)

“In Cold Blood, the Expansion of Psychiatric Evidence, and the Corrective Power of True Crime,” in Law and Literature, vol. 31, no. 1 (2018), pp. 21-47.

ACADEMIC REVIEW ESSAYS

“The Privilege of Illegibility: Examining Race in Matthew Levay’s Violent Minds,” Critical Analysis of Law, vol. 7, no. 2 (2020)

Essays / Articles

All of Our Good—and All of Our Evil—Lies in Wait in the Archives, Lit Hub, November 2019

The Book That Made Me: Unashamed, Public Books, October 2017

Workplace Romances, Public Books, November 2016

"The Night Of" and the Didactic Procedural, Public Books, October 2016

Don't be fooled by "Suffragette": Violence alone did not secure the woman's vote, Quartz

Please contact me for writing samples not available online including screenplays.