Past writing

During my years in higher ed communications, I wrote many magazine features. Here’s a small collection of my favorite pieces that are heavy on biography and history.

Cover of the Rochester Review magazine from May-June 2014, featuring a black-and-white photograph of a young man speaking into a microphone at a table during a civil rights event.

Fifty years ago, Matthew Zwerling risked his life during Mississippi Freedom Summer. His friend, Andrew Goodman, gave his. But the biggest heroes of the civil rights movement, Zwerling says, are only starting to be recognized.

The closet isn’t empty, but it’s a lot smaller than it once was, thanks to the founders of the Gay Liberation Front.

Cover of the Rochester Review magazine featuring a historical illustration of Albion Tourgée with the headline 'A Union ‘Better Than It Was’' and a subtitle about his work on racial equality in 1862.

Why is Albion Tourgée, Class of 1862, once nationally known for his work on racial equality, back in the limelight?

Book cover titled 'Poet & Epistolarian', with a subtitle about a collection of letters on poet Anthony Hecht's life.

A collection of letters offers a new look at the life of poet Anthony Hecht.