…and I run Displaced Snail Quality DIY Zines & Records, a small publisher and DIY record label. To date, I’ve created over 36,000 copies of 320 unique book & zines, and over 4,000 cassettes and records of 60 releases from artists Spencer Moody (Murder City Devils), Joe Jack Talcum (The Dead Milkmen), lauren.napier, and more. All digital downloads from music I release will always be free. Recently my work consists mostly of learning to use two different record lathes, a 1937 Presto 6DSP and a 1947 Rek-O-Cut Challenger, to create vinyl records one at a time in my home studio. I am one half of Consonant Collective with my partner Katie Haegele, and together we’re curating On the Record Poetry, a series of poetry chapbooks with accompanying records by different poets. We also steward the East Falls Zine Reading Room (EFZRR), a collection of over 1,600 catalogued zines. My first book, The Queer Affirmations Coloring Book, was published by Microcosm Publishing, and my second book Queer Horror: New Perspectives on the Chilling and Macabre is due out in 2025, also through Microcosm.

Here’s a rad interview I did with XPN, a feature about cassettes in the Sunday Edition of the Philly Inquirer, a quarantine check-up with Magnet Magazine, a guest appearance on the NPR show The Colin McEnroe show about the recent cassette revival, and I was included on an episode of WHYY’s Movers & Makers talking about the EFZRR. In 2019 I was hosted for a reading by DobraVaga, a zine gallery under the umbrella of the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture in Ljubljana, Slovenia; In 2022 I spent a month living in Gröndalshús in Reykjavík, Iceland, as part of the UNESCO City of Literature writing residency (Katie & I were their first visiting writer’s duo! We returned a year later to tour with Make Like a Tree and to release the projects we’d completed at the residency); In 2023 I attended the Vienna Fanzineist Art Book & Zine Fair, and in 2024 we went back to Reykjavík for the RVK Art Book Fair.

For events & general information, follow me on Instagram, and feel free to get in touch if you’d like.

Here’s a short film I made about the cats in my neighborhood:

Ann Arbor, MI: Vault of Midnight
Asheville, NC: Downtown Books & News
Berkeley, CA: Pegasus Books Downtown
Brooklyn, NY: Quimby’s Bookstore
Chicago, IL: Quimby’s Bookstore
Jersey City, NJ: Word Bookstores
Jersey City, NJ: The Word Distribution
Lansdowne, PA: The Scrappy Cat
Philadelphia, PA: The South Street Art Mart
Philadelphia, PA: Vault + Vine
Portland, OR: Antiquated Future
Portland, OR: Microcosm Publishing

Displaced Snail was founded in December of 2008. Rad.