Origins

I was born in Lancaster, PA, on January 29, 1974, in the waning days of the Nixon administration. When I was three, about six months after my sister, Rebekah, was born, my family moved to Baltimore County, MD. We lived there until the summer after my seventh grade year, then moved to Ottumwa, IA. I returned to Maryland in the fall of 1992 to attend college at St. John's in Annapolis. Rebekah joined me there two years later. After school, I lived in Washington, DC, then went to Guangzhou, China, for a year to teach English. When I returned to the States, I moved to the Bay Area, where I lived in Berkeley and then Oakland, CA, for a total of six years. For four of those years I worked as a Content Editor for Ask Jeeves. In August of 2004 I moved to Los Angeles to begin graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts.