He is a first generation American, the son of documentary filmmaker Hava Kohav Beller, who was born in Berlin and raised in a Israeli Kibbutz.
[1][2] After attending Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York, he received his AB from Vassar College, and his MFA from Columbia University Writing Program.
Since, his work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, ELLE, Spin, Vogue, Slate, and The Village Voice.
He spent a year as a staff writer at The New Yorker, and later worked for The Cambodia Daily newspaper, where he remains a contributing editor.
In 2002, the site was nominated for a Webby Award in the Print and Zine category and published a book: Before and After: Stories from New York, which pivots around the September 11 attacks.