Screenwriting
Broken: Bathwater Edition
Western dramedy anthology series (~60 minutes)
During an unprecedented drought in 19th-century New Mexico, worker Lick Stewart attempts to discover his late wife's disturbing deathbed confession that might have reincarnated her as a miniature horse -- but the battle for the local resort town's sole water source, between the government and the corrupt mayor, threatens the town's fate and with it all remaining clues to Lick's wife's dark secret and harrowing past.
Land Eater
Limited mystery drama series (~60 minutes)
After Doreen Smerczynski’s miscarriage and an ominous clue from her missing husband, and Memphis Belle’s “relapse” and nephew’s death, the two must set aside their differences to uncover the truth about a top-secret military project at Belle Cosmetics® and its link to their families before Doreen turns to stone from a prototype product, Memphis is framed for his nephew’s “murder,” and the world’s climate is irreparably damaged.
Scholarship
"Flat America: Ennui in American Eccentric Cinema" Quarterly Review of Film and Video
"Residue: The Privilege of Spatiality in the Puzzle Film" New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 18:1-2
Miscellaneous
“31 Writers on Writing”
Los Angeles Review of Books
Shadowselves by Jason Ockert
DIAGRAM
Appleseed by Matt Bell
The Cleveland Review of Books
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
Los Angeles Review of Books