I'm currently producing puzzles and games at The New Yorker.
Previously, I was the editorial fellow at Audubon Magazine, where I fact-checked and reported stories on birds, science, and culture. I've also recently reported on garbage disposals, death cafés, periodical cicadas, and state flags for 99% Invisible and The Christian Science Monitor. My crosswords have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Puzzmo.
I am a corn-fed Illinoisan now living in Brooklyn, and a graduate of Pomona College, where I studied anthropology and music. When I'm not writing or puzzling, I might be playing sax, clarinet, melodica, or slide whistle, birding, or haunting the nearest farmer's market.
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📚 Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley
📺 The Studio season 1
🔊 Precipice by Indigo de Souza
🎙️ The Retrievals season 2
The Elmer's Glue bull has a bovine family! Elmer's was a longtime subsidiary of the Borden Dairy Company, whose mascot was Elsie the cow. Elsie, Elmer, and their calves were featured in ads throughout the 20th century, including this one for Hemo chocolate drink that has Elmer doing an anatomically improbable backflip.