I work for Graywolf Press, an independent, nonprofit literary publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Our authors are winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Nobel Prize, Booker and International Booker Prizes, Anisfield-Wolf Award, and National Book Critics Circle Awards.

In my role at Graywolf I work closely with the board of directors, National Council, major donors, and other stakeholders to create and implement organizational strategy and help provide the financial stability that enables our editors to acquire books based solely on their literary merit and fit with our mission.

Prior to Graywolf, I worked for Chicago’s Field Museum. My department was the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) within the division of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo), which has since been renamed the Keller Science Action Center. We were focused on social and environmental justice, and my job was to conduct anthropological research on a variety of related topics utilizing interviews, participant observation, videography, photography, and literature review as methods. We used our research to create programs, workshops, and convenings that enhanced dialogue and established partnerships across social, cultural, economic, neighborhood, and disciplinary barriers. I disseminated our results by serving as associate editor of the third volume of our research journal, and by writing and editing grant reports, book chapters, newsletters, public presentations, guides to exhibitions, academic articles, website copy, and a methods booklet that detailed best practices around community-based collaboration.

After leaving The Field Museum staff I continued for several years as a volunteer, periodically joining their paleontological team on summer prospecting and excavation trips in and around Utah’s San Rafael Swell. I was a member of crews that discovered and excavated a new genus of dinosaur, Siats, which is represented by one species, Siats meekerorum. In a fun turn of events, Siats is now part of Mattel’s “Jurassic World Massive Biters” toy series.

Throughout my careers at Graywolf Press and The Field Museum I have diligently pursued independent creative projects, some of which are detailed on this website.

(I am not on Facebook, TikTok, or Instagram, and my X/Twitter is inactive.)

The photograph of me on the main page of this website was taken by Jana Larson.