Later, he was a reporter and editor for various Boston-area newspapers including The Cambridge Chronicle and the Somerville Journal.
[3] His fiction has appeared in over a dozen literary magazines like nerve.com, Storychord,[4] Opium, Word Riot[5] Mystery Tribune[6] and the Oxford Review.
[7] After moving to Los Angeles, Birmingham worked as a writers' assistant on Queer as Folk before breaking into feature films.
The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote the collection "cast an unexpected spell" and "brims with wit, insight and hilarity.
[15] The collection's title story was chosen for the Selected Shorts podcast hosted by Meg Wolizter.
The 2022 feature film starred Ryan Hansen, Timothy Granaderos, Perry Mattfeld, and Melissa Tang.