Current and
Future Projects

A selection of completed and ongoing work spanning memoir, fiction, and philosophical narrative.
Chasing Mountains
Memoir

Chasing Mountains

A travel-adventure memoir chronicling the physical and psychological extremes of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.

This book explores themes of adventure, love, and the willful embrace of transformative self-destruction that allows us to leave behind the selves we have outgrown.

It also examines the history of the Appalachian Trail and the distinct subculture of modern-day pilgrims that has developed upon it, asking what role hardship plays in a culture increasingly defined by comfort.

Complete and under consideration by publishers
Novel

The Names of the Rain

Set on the coast of Maine, this book follows the story of a boy who falls in love with a mermaid over the course of a dark and magical summer.

Set in a small town plagued by strange happenings connected to the sea, it introduces a cast of off-beat characters both human and otherwise.

It is a story that explores the depth and mystery of longing, and a meditation upon how the things we love and lose in childhood make us the people we become.

Current project, not yet complete
The Names of the Rain
The Play of Man
Novella

The Play of Man

This novella is a glimpse into the life of a young man who takes a job delivering pizza in a very fast car.

Using the work of historian Johan Huizinga as a lens, it explores the interconnected nature of “work” and “play” in the modern world, examining the possibility that both concepts are richest when combined.

This story fuses fast driving and pizza with a deeper search for meaning, becoming a philosophical speed-run of vast questions and shifting gears.

Complete and under revision
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