Words • Images • Ideas

Ever since I can remember, I’ve loved books. (Even before I can remember — “book” was one of my first words!) The battle to keep my to-read pile manageable is ongoing. Everything about words intrigues me.

I was an English major (of course!) with a minor in French at Johns Hopkins University, spent two decades in marketing roles at publishing and technology firms, and led communications at a small-but-mighty social justice nonprofit for five years. I freelanced on the side for many years and have been self-employed full-time since 2019.

Thanks to a varied career, wide-ranging reading, a moderate amount of travel, and lifelong curiosity, I know a lot about a lot of things, a little about a lot more things, and — most important — how to find out about the rest.

Did your author misattribute a second-hand quotation? Have you misspelled the name of an Italian museum? Is your Native American healer character using European cooking herbs? — As your editor, I’ll find it, and I’ll fix it.

As a writer-for-hire, my forte is tailoring a message to engage its intended audience, whether the topic is a bluegrass festival, good books for business owners, or cutting-edge materials research. My unpublished efforts include short fiction, personal essays, and silly doggerel on random topics. (If you’re looking for haiku on forage fish, hit me up!)

I live and work in New York City, where I can walk to half a dozen Little Free Libraries (whence the ginormous to-read pile). Outside of work, I’m an amateur naturalist and photographer and volunteer for the Prospect Park Zoo, Green-Wood Cemetery, and iNaturalist.