I am a freelance writer, podcast producer and photographer. My work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Zing Magazine, The Idler, The Revealer, City Limits and NYU Alumni Magazine. My audio work was featured on B-Side Radio and ARTINFO.com. I have also written for Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau and other publications that are even harder to pronounce for Americans.

Between 2003 and 2005 I worked as a writer-in-residence for L.E.A.P. (Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program), teaching inner city children how to write, conduct interviews and photograph. I also led teacher and artist workshops and worked as a program manager, supervising other L.E.A.P. artists and writers and conducting quality control of L.E.A.P. programs in public schools. In 2003 I taught gifted teenagers photography, audio production and portfolio building at the Joan Mitchell Foundation (NYC) and the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens. Other residencies I have been invited to include Artcroft (Kentucky, 2008) and Yaddo (New York, 2009). I 

In 2002 I assisted the German artist Karin Sander in the preparation of her conceptual art piece wordsearch, which was published in the New York Times on Oct. 4th 2002. My task was to search for words in every language spoken in New York City. Along with Franziska Lamprecht and Hajo Moderegger, I explored dubious neighborhoods in New York City, visited nearly all the Missions to the U.N. and participated in the coordination and correspondence between the artist, the project commissioner (Deutsche Bank), and the word donors. 

In 2000 and 2001 I wrote in-depth encyclopedia entries on Roland Barthes, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Bruegel, Roman Opalka, Clifford Still, etc. for the Harenberg Literature Encyclopedia and the Harenberg Painter Encyclopedia (published in 2001 and 2002 by Harenberg). One of my essays about American sightseeing was featured in Erlebniswelten (Lit-Verlag 2005).

I hold a Masters of Arts in Journalism from New York University (2007) and a Masters of Arts in Art History from the University of Hamburg, Germany (2001). I was invited to speak at symposiums at Lueneburg University and at The New School and to read at the Bowery Poetry Club (Rant Rhapsodies 2007). I won the Sidney Gross Memorial Award for Investigative Reporting in 2007 and was awarded a NYFA fellowship for nonfiction literature in 2009.

I am married to the greatest artist and funniest human being in the world, Giovanni Garcia-Fenech. After many years in Brooklyn we recently moved to Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, absolutely the best neighborhood in New York.