is the founder and editor of writinginpublic.com, an online journal that promotes the art and intelligence of the essay across boundaries and borders. His essays and reviews have been published in Painted Bridge Quarterly, Gay and Lesbian Review, Lambda Literary and The Smart Set, where he writes a bi-weekly visual arts column. He has taught writing at The American University, The New School, and Princeton University, and currently teaches in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University.