More recent work is on top. Bolded works I am more proud of.
If you’re short on time or patience, read the highest bolded selections from each section.
Expository writing
I’ve written newsletters for Datamuse, a search engine company that’s been around since the early days of the web. My job involved crawling through CivicSearch, a database that aggregates transcripts of local government meetings from the United States and Canada, to discuss important but below-the-radar issues.
- Fluoride in drinking water
- Voter turnout
- Ranked-choice voting
- Participatory budgeting
- Rent control
- Accessory dwelling units
- Airbnbs and short-term rentals
- Immigration
- Cycling (podcast version and YouTube video)
- Pickleball
- Harm reduction, the opioid crisis, and safe injection sites
- Bus rapid transit
- School absenteeism (and one-pager)
I use Slack to communicate and GitHub to create web versions of the newsletter.
I also scripted, recorded, and edited one-minute tutorial videos for YouTube that demonstrated key features of OneLook, a dictionary–thesaurus–word-finder combo.
Fiction
Short stories that I authored
I wrote short stories for UC Santa Barbara’s The Catalyst Contemporary Literary Arts Magazine.
- Prose: “#4863” (isolated piece and full issue)
- Poetry: “Créme” (isolated piece and full issue)
- Prose: “WWW” (isolated piece and full issue)
- Prose: “what is an this” (isolated piece and full issue)
- Prose: “Cirrus” (writing only; isolated piece and full issue)
Short stories that I edited
I was the prose editor of The Catalyst Contemporary Literary Arts Magazine at UC Santa Barbara. I helped writers polish their words, ideas, and stories for publication.
- Prose: “The Three Times I Have Dared to Tango With the Tides” (before and after)
- Prose: “Tarsal Maggot” (before and after)
- Prose: “*Sensitive” (before and after)
- Prose: “All Aboard” (before and after)
- Poetry: “Running Cross Country in Oxnard” (before and after)
Website work
Since October 2023, I’ve maintained the South Hall Literary Magazine website.
- I use WordPress and some custom HTML, CSS, and PHP.
- Hosting involves Spaceship and Cloudflare.
- I manage the submission intake system using SMTP, AppSheet, and Google Apps Script.
- I’ve also created a Google Docs add-on (for internal use) to fix common formatting issues while editing submissions, like double spaces and straight quotes.
The website you’re currently viewing this portfolio on also runs on WordPress (.org, not .com). I maintain and update it myself, using HTML, CSS, Namecheap, Cloudflare, cPanel, and the occasional FTP. I’m currently working on moving this site from WordPress to Vercel and writing everything from scratch.