For 20+ years, I’ve worked as a writer, editor, and writing coach, focusing on the arts, business, lifestyle, and travel.

Way back in 2003, I was a young blue-haired library clerk minding the archives of a major daily newspaper when the entertainment editor approached me with an idea: Would I be interested in writing a weekly music column? I had zero experience and no training. Obviously, I said yes.

In the 20 years since, I’ve written about business, travel, lifestyle, and the arts for dozens of publications, penned content for major brands in the luxury, tech, and nonprofit sectors, worked 1:1 with the world’s brightest students on admissions essays that earned Ivy League offers, and ghostwritten high-level speeches for UNICEF directors. I’ve published a few books of my own, too.

Beyond writing, I served as copyeditor for three magazines and built a freelance editing business from the ground up, personally completing more than 11,000 proofreading and editing projects for clients in nearly 100 countries worldwide. Time featured me in an article about the gig economy.

Most importantly of all, I once edited a few words by Keith Richards (!!!).

I’ve been writing professionally for two decades. Since 2003, my work has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazine, and web outlets, spanning hundreds of articles on topics including travel, insurance, music, lifestyle, health, beauty, fashion, style, architecture, industry, and more. Conducting hundreds of interviews—with entrepreneurs, musicians, and everyday people—has taught me how to get the right information and tell other people’s stories in a clear, engaging way.

The skills I developed as a features writer and journalist inform my work across a vast repertoire of project types, most of which are too unexciting to mention here but include web content, blog posts, product descriptions, and more.

My experiences have made me versatile and endlessly curious, and I love challenging myself with something new.

Have a writing project I might be a good fit for? Get in touch via my Contact page.

Regular Contributions

Alberta Venture (newsstand business magazine, circulation: 234K): Tech Essentials, Lifestyle Essentials, and Travel Essentials (monthly).
The Edmonton Journal (major daily newspaper, circulation: 100K): Family Five and Ten to Do roundups (weekly).
The Edmonton Sun (major daily newspaper, circulation: 50K): Music features and album reviews (weekly).
See Magazine (independent weekly newspaper, circulation: 20K): Outside Broadcast music column (weekly).

Featured Publications

AMA Insider – A Healthy Investment: Critical Illness Insurance

AMA Inside – How to Boost Your Wellbeing by Making Travel Plans for the Future

AMA Insider – The Best Beach Towns in Mexico

BCAA – Heads Above Water

Coast Mental Health – Let’s Get Cooking

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Featured Writing Projects

Cartier – Travel Retail (Luxury)

Wrote, researched, and edited short articles and feature-length pieces for luxury brand Cartier's Travel Retail newsletter on topics including travel, world news, luxury industry, fashion, retail industry, and more.

Google – Google Hotels Project (Tech/Travel)

Recruited by Google as a copywriter for the launch of its Hotels Project. Independently wrote and researched hundreds of concise descriptions for hotels, inns, B&Bs, and travel destinations according to in-house style.

My editing career began in 2011 with an editorial internship at magazine publisher Venture Publishing, where I quickly discovered an aptitude for copyediting. I took those skills and built a thriving freelance editing business, completing more than 11,000 projects for clients worldwide across virtually all industries and document types. That business earned me a mention in TIME magazine.

I hold an Editing certificate from Simon Fraser University and am a highly meticulous, skilled, and intuitive proofreader, copyeditor, line (stylistic) editor, and developmental (substantive) editor.

Have an editing project you think I’d be a good fit for? Get in touch via my Contact page.

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Featured Editing Projects

Hiromi Inayoshi – CI Design

Line-edited, copyedited, and proofread English-language website and book content for Japanese master artist Hiromi Inayoshi, who designs corporate identity and personal identity marks for the Dalai Lama, the Sultan of Brunei, and other high-profile individuals and companies.

Coursera – Guided Projects

Copyedited a large internal course for Coursera course creators on creating Guided Projects. Followed in-house style guide and collaborated with Coursera's internal team via Google Docs workflow.

Teach Me Health & Homeopathy Curriculum

Performed developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, and proofreading for a full course curriculum, including workbooks, teacher’s manual, storybook, and more, for grades 1–12.