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I am a writer and editor based in Atlanta, Georgia, with experience on magazine staffs and as a freelance journalist. I’m accustomed to tackling a broad range of topics—my stories have taken me from the U.S. Open Tennis Championships (where I shadowed a Georgia teenager on her Cinderella run to the semifinals) to a crowded rush-hour train with the CEO of Atlanta’s transit system—but I’ll always jump at the chance to write about nature.
A little more about me: On third-grade career day, I wore the name tag “writer” on my shirt. My path has been clear since, though I briefly wavered as a college freshman—then re-watched Dead Poets Society in my dorm room, called my dad, and announced I was going to be an English major. He heartily congratulated me and no doubt regretted having bought me the DVD.*
I graduated from Northwestern University in 2005 (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) with that English degree and another in international studies. For nine years I wore a variety of hats—starting as copy editor and rising to digital director—at Atlanta, the long-running city magazine. Next came a blurry chapter of freelancing while raising two babies, capped off by a global pandemic; during this time, I served as deputy editor of Southbound (named best travel magazine in 2022 by the Society of American Travel Writers), inaugural editor of the small but beautiful magazine of Jekyll Island, and a writer for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Most recently, I joined the editorial staff of Garden & Gun, the award-winning national magazine about the American South, where I curate, write, and edit digital content.
In my spare time I enjoy hiking, cooking, planting things, and hanging out in Decatur (the Atlanta neighborhood where I live) with my husband and two kids.
Check out some of my published writings here.
*After that phone call, my father emailed me these words of advice: “I wish for you an ambition that translates someday into a vocation, whereby you can become lost in (captivated by) what you do, and (most days) be satisfied with yourself and what you have accomplished . . . So I hope you come to see yourself as an ambassador, Rhodes Scholar, songwriter, teacher, etc., and do it.” Miss you, Dad.