is the Managing Editor of Inquest. Before joining Inquest, he served as Managing Editor of Boston Review for nearly a decade, where he was also founding Arts Editor of the magazine’s Arts in Society project. He had previously served as Acting Managing Editor of Transition.

As a poet and writer, he has been in Prairie Schooner, Electric Lit, Poets & Writers, Raleigh Review, Painted Bride, Memorious, Cimarron Review, Assaracus, and elsewhere.

As an editor, he enjoys helping creative writers, essayists, and academics to craft superb work for general audiences. He has worked with many of the greatest writers publishing today, including New York Times best-sellers, MacArthur geniuses, and winners of Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, NAACP Image Awards, the Robert Frost Medal, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Awards, and Lambda Awards.

He earned a PhD in African and African American Studies from Harvard University and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. His scholarship has appeared in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams, and the Journal of Haitian Studies, as well as the edited volume Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth. Prior to becoming a full-time editor, he taught religious studies and anthropology at Harvard, Tufts, and Northeastern.

He can be reached by email.