credit David Blakeman

I am a writer from Phoenix, Arizona. My writing has been published in Harper’s, The Paris Review, and County Highway, among others.

I wrote about teaching in a one-room schoolhouse for Harper’s here.

I wrote about bull riding for The Paris Review here.

I wrote about child sex abuse in a small Southern town for County Highway here.

I wrote about attending the first AI funeral in America for The Dispatch here.

I wrote about performing in America’s largest evangelical church service for County Highway here.

I wrote about life among the Southwest’s off-grid homesteaders for Big Think here.

I wrote about striper fishing with the novelist Richard Ford for County Highway here.

I wrote about the Liberian artist Papay Solomon for High Country News here.

I wrote a series about Turning Point USA for County Highway here and here.

I wrote about following Vladimir Nabokov around small towns in Arizona for Phoenix Magazine here.

I am on staff at The New York Review of Books. You can find my interviews with Vivian Gornick, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Frances Wilson, and others here.

You can get in contact with me by emailing

chandlerf10@gmail.com