Hello! Allow me to introduce myself. If you’re looking for the short version, here it is:
I am an independent science journalist, poet, and writer of fiction. 

Shorter? I’m a writer.

Longer? The moment I thought I could be a writer was in a high school freshman theatre class when a guest playwright (Thomas Campbell, Ph.D.) came in and offered to mentor a handful of us to write one act plays for the rest of the class to perform. Several years later Tom helped me find my college—Columbia College Chicago—where I eventually fell in love with and studied fiction writing. My words were meant for the page, not the stage. 

At 25, after a boring stint in copywriting for a sunglass manufacturer, I decided to go back to school and get a master’s in science writing. Science was that second love that I’d put on the back burner to pursue writing. When I attended my master’s program at Johns Hopkins University I learned that my talent as a writer blended perfectly with my curiosity to understand how the world worked. 

As a science writer I’ve written for top universities, including Weill Cornell Medicine, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Princeton, and University of Colorado. I have bylines in Science, Women’s Running, Outside, and other national publications. 

I am a skilled interviewer, researcher, and writer for general audiences. My passions lie in writing scientific profiles and uncovering news about cutting edge research. More specifically, I love being able to thread health discoveries into the context of everyday life. 

I am also a runner (currently training for my second marathon) and have had the incredibly cool opportunity to report on national and international running events like the 2022 Track and Field World Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and interview world-class athletes like Allyson Felix, Alysia Montano, Mary Cain, and Deena Kastor. 

In my free time I still write poetry and fiction; they are the creative fuel that keep me on my toes as a storyteller. In fact, my first work of poetry is forthcoming in HOG RIVER PRESS. And I volunteer as a mentor for Girls Write Now, an incredible organization that gives students from diverse backgrounds an introduction to all the amazing career avenues available to writers. 

Tom, if you’re reading this—thanks!