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 Visual art and design have always been at the forefront of my creative life, but writing projects
have consistently hovered nearby, beckoning for my attention. At the University of Virginia, where I was both a literary
and graphics editor of The Declaration (the university’s self-proclaimed smug,
left-leaning paper), I wrote about everything from the virtues of Tom Petty’s Damn
the Torpedoes over Free Falling to the first glimmers of Soviet-style capitalism
as seen in Charlottesville’s Russian knick-knack shop. In a most suitable match of writer with freakish subject matter,
I covered the university’s little-known Department of Paranormal Psychology. (I’ve had a life-long interest in
dreams.)While working on an MFA in painting at the University of Georgia in
Athens, I was employed by the state’s Department of Education as an assessor of public school students’ writing
samples. Upon moving to New York City in 1996, I wrote reviews for New York Arts magazine,
until it finally drove me crazy to be introduced for the umpteenth time by a gallery owner as an arts writer rather than as
a painter. Still, it was a pretty good run.In 2007 I won a Conde Nast-sponsored
essay contest for Dove’s Real Women “Energy Glow” campaign with my earth-shattering piece on Why I Love Summer, in 500 characters or less, spaces included. (Did I mention Dove makes a really nice body
lotion?) Slightly more serious recent work has included proofreading several books, writing web copy, and dreaming up tag
lines for logo clients.
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