lives in Brooklyn and works as an editorial assistant at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A former researcher at the Institute for the Future of the Book, he also contributes to The Onion A.V. Club New York. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Scholar, Six Little Things, Identity Theory, Foghorn Magazine, and The Pinch, where Brian Evenson awarded it the 2009 Fiction Prize. In 2010, Mitzvah Chaps will publish “Hedonic Calculus,” a collection of his flash fiction. He cannot be followed on Twitter.