Hello,
I’m a writer and editor with over 12 years' experience in creative and strategic pr and communications work. Everything starts with the story and why it matters.
This should be fun.
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Publications
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An Ear For Good Design
Integrated design firm Mithun creates impactful spaces through a culture of listening.
Seattle Magazine | Mar/Apr 2026
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A Clear Vision for Growth
Local optometry clinic Eye Eye celebrates a decade in business and prepares to debut its first line of frames.
Seattle Business Magazine | Jan/Feb 2026
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Most Influential - The Explorer: Tessa Hulls
People who know Tessa Hulls won’t be surprised by her initial reaction to learning she’d won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book, the 2024 graphic memoir, "Feeding Ghosts.”
Seattle Magazine | Jan/Feb 2026
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Most Influential - The Councilmember: Alexis Mercedes Rinck
Seattle’s youngest councilmember leads with a boots-on-the-ground approach.
Seattle Magazine | Jan/Feb 2026
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Rebuilding From The Studs
Niche? Nonprofit? And a print publication? All signs pointed to an uphill battle. But ARCADE’s Leah St. Lawrence is showing how stability, growth, and experimentation can coexist within one organization.
Seattle Business Magazine | Nov/Dec 2025
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SAM Stories
Writing for SAM Stories, the Seattle Art Museum’s blog, including Muse/News, a regular series featuring press coverage for SAM and beyond.
2017-2025
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Material World
Meet the people who play a vital—yet often overlooked—role in creating the spaces where we live, work, and play.
GRAY Magazine | Apr 2019
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"Yard Work" from WA129: Poems Selected By Tod Marshall: State Poet Laureate, 2016-2018
Honoring Washington State’s 129 years of statehood, this anthology—edited by state poet laureate Tod Marshall—features 129 Washington poets.
April 2017
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Northern Exposure
On a rugged British Columbia island, a Seattle architect embraces prefab's possibilities in a retreat that redefines glamping.
GRAY Magazine | Feb 2017
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Natural Habitat
Nestled among trees and spanning a pond in northwest Oregon, a house by Cutler Anderson Architects fully—and artfully—embraces its surroundings.
GRAY Magazine | Jun 2016
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Chinese Invasion
Chinese food is the takeout standard in most cities, chopsticks and to-go cartons the signals of busy urban lives. But Seattle—a city full of pho, teriyaki and Thai—has never been known as a place for great Chinese. So we head to the International District, Mecca for authentic Chinese cuisine of every variety, to find it.
City Arts Magazine | Nov 28, 2011
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Cookie Bread and Tons of Butter
European Forms, Japanese Flavors, and Star-Quality Baked Goods at Fuji Bakery in the ID.
The Stranger | Mar 2, 2011
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Soup! Our Favorite Bowls
Why bread soup at Salumi and every soup ever at Le Pichet and Cafe Presse are my favorite soups.
The Stranger | Jan 27, 2011
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Memoirs of a Sweet Tooth
A story of childhood barfing. Winner of the second annual Stranger/Rendezvous Reading Series Minor Writing Contest.
April 2001
Republished in The Rendezvous Reader: Northwest Writing, edited by Novella Carpenter, Paula Gilovich, and Rachel Kessler (10th Avenue East Publishing), Jan 2002
“I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
— Zora Neale Hurston