I am a graphic designer from a small dirt town in central Utah. Currently Associate Director of Design and Publishing at Carnegie Museum of Art. I have worked on projects with Other Means, Burnaway, Guggenheim New York, Meta Open Arts, and Tina Kim Gallery. Interested in books, animals, iconography, post cards, and gas stations.

For a PDF portoflio please email me.

Inspired by Art Garfunkel, below are all the books I have read since I started keeping a list in 2016.

2025
1 The Ritz of the Bayou Nancy Lemann
2 Stoner John Williams
3 The Princess of 72nd Street Elaine Kraf
4 The Unprofessionals Julie Hecht
5 On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) Solvej Balle
6 On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) Solvej Balle
7 These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruin Caveh Zahedi
8 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
9 Amerika Franz Kafka
10 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
11 Do Everything in the Dark Gary Indiana
12 Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life Dan Nadel
13 Circle Mirror Transformation Annie Baker
14 Shoplifting from American Apparel Tao Lin
15 Grand Rapids Natasha Stagg
2024
1 Alice Sadie Celine: A Novel Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
2 Etham Frome Edith Wharton
3 Summer Edith Wharton
4 Molly Blake Butler
5 The Antipodes Annie Baker
6 Love Junkie Robert Plunket
7 Acting Class Nick Drnaso
8 Blubber Judy Blume
9 Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black Cookie Mueller
10 My Search for Warren Harding Robert Plunket
11 I Fear My Pain Interests You Stephanie LaCava
12 Infinite Life Annie Baker
13 Lives of the Saints Nancy Lemann
14 The Sleepers Sophie Calle
2023
1 Artforum César Aira
2 The Breast Phillip Roth
3 Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard
4 The Guest Emma Cline
5 Sleeveless Natasha Stagg
2022
1 Custom of the Country Edith Wharton
2 The Night Before Christmas Nikolai Gogol
3 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
4 The Dog of the South Charles Portis
5 American Pastoral Phillip Roth
6 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Anthony Bourdain
7 Heat Bill Buford
8 A Swim in a Pond in the Rain George Saunders
9 The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories Tove Ditlevsen
10 The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt
11 How to Go to the Movies Quentin Crisp
12 Remainder Tom McCarthy
2021
1 Romance in Marseille Claude McKay
2 The Island of Sea Women Lisa See
3 Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa Kenji Miyazawa
4 The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa Yasunari Kawabata
5 How to Murder Your Life Cat Marnell
6 Virtuoso Yelena Moskovich
7 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev Ivan Turgenev
8 The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency Tove Ditlevsen
9 100 Boyfriends Brontez Purnell
10 Cherry Nico Walker
11 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh
12 Portnoy’s Complaint Phillip Roth
13 The Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq
14 Too Loud A Solitude Bohumil Hrabal
15 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
16 Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh
17 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
18 The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake Breece D'J Pancake
19 True Grit Charles Portis
20 Goodbye Columbus Phillip Roth
21 It Never Ends Tom Scharpling
22 Based on A True Story Norm MacDonald
23 The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil George Saunders
2020
1 Beauty and Sadness Yasunari Kawabata
2 Dr Zhivago Boris Pasternak
3 Modern Love Constance DeJong
4 The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
5 Confessions of a Mask Yukio Mishima
6 On Heroes and Tombs Ernesto Sabato
7 A Death in the Family Karl Ove Knausgaard
8 Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis
9 The Master of Go Yasunari Kawabata
10 The Black Prince Iris Murdoch
11 The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas Machado de Assis
12 Chekhov: The Major Plays Anton Chekhov
13 Tokyo Ueno Station Yu Miri
14 Emma Jane Austen
15 True West, Buried Child, and Curse of the Starving Class Sam Shepard
2019
1 Chemistry Weike Wang
2 Dandelions Yasunari Kuwabata
3 My Favorite Thing is Monsters Emil Ferris
4 Strange Weather in Tokyo Hiromi Kawakami
5 Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata
6 John Annie Baker
7 Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata
8 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
9 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante
10 The Story of a New Name Elena Ferrante
11 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante
12 The Story of the Lost Child Elena Ferrante
13 Spring and All William Carlos Williams
14 Old Capital Yasunari Kawabata
15 Spring Snow Yukio Mishima
16 Lightning Rods Hellen DeWitt
17 Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino
18 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Walter Benjamin
19 On Writing Stephen King
20 Shimmer Sarah Schulman
21 Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami
22 Sleeveless Natasha Stagg
23 Surveys Natasha Stagg
24 Oishinbo: Vegetables Tetsu Kariya
25 Oishinbo: Fish, Sushi, Sashimi Tetsu Kariya
26 Oishinbo: Gyoza and Ramen Tetsu Kariya
27 Oishinbo: Sake Tetsu Kariya
28 Females Andrea Long Chu
2018
1 Priest Daddy Patricia Lockwood
2 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
3 Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
4 Commonwealth Ann Patchett
5 The Aliens Annie Baker
6 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennesse Williams
7 Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
8 Botchan Natsume Soskei
9 Oishinbo: Japanese Food Tetsu Kariya
10 Tenth of December George Saunders
11 Oishinbo: Izakaya Tetsu Kariya
12 Oishinbo: Rice Tetsu Kariya
13 Oishinbo: Rice Ruth Ozeki
14 Bad Feminist Roxane Gay
15 What We See When We Read Peter Mendelsund
16 Maus Art Spiegelman
17 Some Trick Helen DeWitt
18 Like Art Glen O’Brian
19 The Form of the Book Book Multiple
20 Turtles All the Way Down John Green
21 The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt
22 Salt Fat Acid Heat Samin Nosrat
23 Fangirl Rainbow Rowell
24 White Teeth Zadie Smith
2017
1 The Shining Stephen King
2 Hondo Louis L’Amour
3 War Dances Sherman Alexie
4 Three Ten to Yuma and Other Stories Elmour Leonard
5 Villette Charlotte Bronte
6 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Tom Robbins
7 The Thousandth Floor Katherine McGee
8 Ways of Seeing John Berger
9 Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty
10 Delta Wedding Eudora Welty
11 The Witching Hour Anne Rice
12 Lasher Anne Rice
13 The Empty Space Peter Brook
14 No Logo Naomi Klein
15 Taltos Anne Rice
16 The Wind Up Bird Chronicles Haruki Murakami
17 Aura Carlos Fuentes
18 A Supposedly Fun thing I’ll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace
19 White Noise Don DeLillo
20 Americana Don DeLillo
21 Design as Art Bruno Munari
22 Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
23 The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde
24 Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach
25 Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman
26 We are Never Meeting in Real Life Samantha Irby
27 Pachinko Min Jin Lee
28 Free Food for Millionaires Min Jin Lee
2016
1 Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey
2 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
3 Understanding Comics Scott McCloud
4 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
5 A Horse of Her Own Annie Wedekind
6 The Sellout Paul Beatty
7 Turtle Face and Beyond Arthur Bradford
8 I Love Dick Chris Kraus
9 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
10 A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami
11 The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence
12 Women in Love D.H. Lawrence
13 The Duel Anton Chekov
14 Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery
15 Paper Girls Volume 1 Brian K. Vaughan
16 Howl Allen Ginsburg
17 A Christmas Memory Truman Capote
18 Oreo Fran Ross
19 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child J.K. Rowling