About Me

I’ve always had a love for the written word.

Even as a child, I would meticulously type up the “Lee Family News” on our big, clunky typewriter.  Then we got a computer, and by age 12 I was making little newsletters on the word processor.  During my teens, I published a zine, Wildfire–my personal life in black and white. It was melodramatic at best, bordering on narcissistic, but boy, did I ever enjoy the cutting, pasting, and photocopying. The ability to bring words to life was sheer, unadulterated joy, even if Wildfire didn’t last past two issues.

Despite all this writing, the idea that journalism might be the vocation for me didn’t occur to me until my junior year of high school, when I was accidentally enrolled in the advanced journalism class.  Before, writing had just been a hobby–until that point I had wanted to be a computer programmer!  But I caught on quickly, and decided to leave the world of Pascal and BASIC for that of Pyle and Bly.

I did layout for two years and wrote articles occasionally, more so as time went by.  I even had my own column by the end of my senior year.  When I went to college, I enrolled as a communications major and quickly became involved in the campus newspaper.  There, I held the titles of Layout/Design Editor, Copy Editor, Features Editor, and Editor-in-Chief–not all at once, of course!

In 2006 I transferred to Towson University, where I wrote features for the student-run newspaper. I also took on four editorial internships: three at weekly newspapers and one at a monthly magazine. I earned my degree in Mass Communications with a track in Journalism in January of 2008.

Shortly thereafter, I moved to New York City for my first post-college job: being a production editor for a puzzle magazine publishing company. It was a truly wonderful experience, and I am grateful for it. As an added bonus, I’m now a whiz at crossword puzzles!

These days I’m a freelance writer and proofreader who is looking for that awesome full-time editing or writing gig. And I remember that old typewriter fondly, although I have replaced it several times over with newer technology. Much has changed over the last 20 years since the “Lee Family News.” My desire to write, though, remains.

Writing is my passion, my art, my love.  It only follows that I should pursue a career in it.