About Me
I’ve always been a writer, even when I didn’t think I was one, or a very good one. I was ten years old when I wrote in my journal, “One day I will write a book.”
Forty years later I made good on that promise. Ravenous: A Food Lover’s Journey from Obsession to Freedom was my first book. I’m working on my next.
I’ve made my livelihood through my communications work, running the communications departments for media companies including Salon.com, Yoga Journal, Ten Speed Press, Collins Publishers, The Shift Network, and more. I’ve worked on books, magazines, websites, in online education — promoting a whole cast of characters: world-famous athletes, famous chefs (some with peculiar areas of expertise — including the best ways to cook chicken feet), activists including a former Black Panther, yoga gurus, experts in psychedelics and altered states, and many other fascinating humans.
Through it all, I was committed to clear writing, clear messaging, and creative communication. I’m proud of all that time in the trenches.
And now, welcome Act III—Women’s Writing Circles
In a recent Wild Writing class, our writing prompt was “I write because…” and I wrote this: I write because … there are parts of myself I want to know better. I write because … I love digging into the weeds of what it means to be human. I write because … I want to be radically alive in the time that’s left to me on this gorgeous planet.