Freelancer for such publications as E/The Environmental Magazine, Fine Gardening, the Oregonian, the Portland Tribune, Oregon Humanities, Seattle Woman, Northwest Palate, Edible Portland, Oregon Home, Seattle Magazine, Northwest Home, Seattle Bride, the Eugene Weekly, In The Fray, US Airways Magazine, Frontier Airlines Magazine, Reno Air Approach, and the Seattle Best Places series.

Managing editor of Culinate, an online publication exploring food awareness and home cooking.

Blogger, at Culinate, about the pleasures and pains of chicken-keeping.

Contributor to Etude, the online literary journal of the University of Oregon.

Contributing editor at January Magazine, an online literary review.

Former lifestyle editor at the Mercer Island Reporter, a weekly community paper near Seattle.

Former editorial assistant at Ulysses Press, a Berkeley travel and lifestyle book publisher.

Former editorial assistant and acting editor at Metropolitan Living, a monthly glossy in Seattle.

Master of arts in literary nonfiction, University of Oregon

Bachelor of arts in humanities, Wesleyan University