In 2025 I received the American Literary Review Award in Essays for Deracination, Or How to Disappear, which interrogates the decision of my Indigenous Sámi ancestors to pass for White in the racial climate of 1880s America. I am a 2023 Storyknife Fellow and an alum of the Tin House, Kenyon Review, and Granta Memoir Workshops.
Current project
Hustling Vinyl: A Family History of the Record Businessand How We Survived the Hype is a memoir + narrative nonfiction account of growing up on the spinning edge of the vinyl record business during the golden age of rock music. The book project has received the support of PEN/America through the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Grant in Literary Oral History and is shortlisted for the Bridport Memoir Prize.
It has been said that reading is inhaling and writing is exhaling. Here’s what I’m reading now or just put down.
