Writer & Editor

I am an arts and culture journalist who has covered visual art, performance, film, literature, architecture, and just about any combination thereof.

I was the staff arts critic for the Austin American-Statesman for 17 years. My commendations include the First Place Arts & Culture Criticism Award from the Society for Features Journalism, the Rabkin Prize for Art Journalism, as well as professional fellowships at USC’s Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and NEA/Columbia University Arts Journalism Institute.

I founded and led Sightlines, an Austin-based non-profit online arts and culture magazine that reached an annual readership of 600,000. And for two years, I taught arts journalism at the University of Texas College of Fine Arts.

My writing has appeared in the New York Times, Architecture magazine, Hyperallergic, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Art Papers, and ICON design magazine, among other publications.