Chicago | Marginalia

Looking up at the park.

Chicago loves summer. I mean Chicago really loves summer. From the moment the sun started staying out past 5 o..

I just completed my fourth semester at Columbia. It could be considered my final semester, since the Fall will just be me working on my th..

What is the name for the energy that permeates a campus a week before Spring semester gives way to summer? I’m almost certain I don’t know..

Burn Out: The half redacted/half misspelled moments of life.

It’s a blue sky day here in Chicago. It’s sunny with a high of 80. Everyo..

Everyone comes to Columbia at different stages in their writing career. Whether you’re fresh out of undergrad (like I was), or you’ve take..

If you had to pick out a single theme from my writing on graduate life thus far, I think the thing you’d see repeating most often througho..

Hey Everyone!

This past month or two has been one for the books. I attended the Game Developers Conference, which was an absolutely inc..

My studio space!

After many reader emails and a few insistent phone calls I’ve decided to cave to popular demand and share my amazingl..

There are a number of things to love about the Creative Writing program here at Columbia College, but one of the parts I’ve come to love t..

Over break I managed to eat tons of Christmas cookies and I even got a few naps, but now it’s back to school. This semester I’m taking..