My editing life started with wrangling serial commas for a book production company located above the Underwear King in New York City. After a few years as a reporter for and editor of community weeklies in Westchester, I moved to Seattle in the mid-1990s, to earn an MFA in fiction and teach writing at the University of Washington.

I soon put my big fat mess of a short story collection in a drawer and stepped solidly into the nonfiction world (never looking back) as managing editor of the Tacoma City Paper, editor-in-chief for AMI inflight magazine group, and managing editor for Seattle magazine. As a freelance writer, I have contributed to The Seattle Times, Ms. Magazine, Mental Floss and other publications, as well as The Bark, where I was a contributing editor and web editor for several years. I now divide my time between editorial freelancing, reporting for the Veterinary Information Network News Service, and, as a partner at Page Moreno, writing and editing for corporate types who understand that compelling stories are a killer way to engage clients and customers.

I love muckrakers, conspiracy theories, architecture and design, anything that gets me into the outdoors, and, of course, dogs.