Once in a while, I write something non-academic.
Before I became a professor, I worked as a copywriter.
I wrote full-time for iFixit (the “Wikipedia of repair”) for a year and continued to do occasional contract work with them for several more. I helped launch the repair advocacy side of the site, iFixit.com/Right-to-Repair. I also worked with the CEO on editorials for Wired, The Atlantic, Motherboard, and Business Insider, among others. See, for example, “John Deere Just Swindled Farmers out of Their Right to Repair,” an article we wrote for Wired.
I’ve also done some freelance copywriting, on projects such as meat descriptions for a Tennessee cattle farmer.
I also write poetry, sometimes. Even more occasionally, I get it published.
“how to wash your hands,” The Quaranzine: Poetry in the Time of COVID-19, August 2020
“boil rice, braise greens, fry chicken,” Fearsome Critters Volume 3, July 2020
“Todestriebe,” The Waggle Issue 7, Summer 2018
“Ubi Sunt,” Cicada Volume 12, No. 3, 2010