My origin story

Since Grandma taught me to read my first book as a toddler, I’ve been a menace at the written word. My first record of trying to profit off of writing was a stack of handwritten flyers I worked up for the local used car dealership at age 6 - I didn’t get that account, but I did keep on with the writing.

After earning a B.A. in English/Communications from Truman State University, I started work as a reporter at a small weekly newspaper in Missouri, where over the course of five years I earned a number of state and national awards. I moved to East Tennessee, where I spent several years as a freelance journalist, legal assistant, temp, and professional poor person until I was hired in 2007 as an editor at an Indiana-based agricultural newspaper. These days I still do some freelance ag writing from time to time, including an occasional contribution to Forbes.com, and write for a downtown Indy ad/marketing agency.

In my free time I write columns for this site, read all kinds of other people’s good writing, learn more about cooking, figure out cosplay construction, and forever procrastinate about whether to tear down the former homeowner’s old treehouse in my backyard. You can contact me via email.