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I'm a writer and editor who has been working in media since 1998. I spent 14 years writing and reporting for newspapers in Indiana, California, Massachusetts and Kentucky. I now live in Chicago.

I received my undergraduate degree in English from the University of Chicago and my master’s degree in print journalism from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In mid-December 2014, I moved to Chicago from Evansville, Indiana.

I got my start in newspapers by writing news and feature stories for two small weekly newspapers in Warrick County, Indiana, in 1998. After two years, I headed to Berkeley, California, for a two-year graduate program in journalism before returning to the Evansville, Indiana, area. I began working for The Henderson, Kentucky, Gleaner in 2002, covering mostly education and public safety for this six-day-a-week, award-winning newspaper focusing on three counties in western Kentucky.

I worked at The Gleaner until 2012, earning seven news writing awards in the process. These awards include a 2012 Best of E.W. Scripps Award; a 2011 Kentucky Press Association second-place award for feature writing; a 2011 Associated Press Managing Editors Instant Citation; a 2009 Kentucky Press Association second-place award for Best Business/Agribusiness Story; a 2008 Kentucky Press Association first-place award for Best Spot News Coverage; a 2006 Kentucky Press Association second-place award for Best General News Story; and a 2004 Kentucky Press Association first- place award for Investigative Reporting Series.

I wrote a wine column for The Evansville, Indiana, Courier & Press about wines and food and how they intersect off and on since 2011 until October 2015.

I wrote blog posts for a Keller Williams real estate agent in Chicago. I also wrote stories on theater, the arts and politics for the EdgeVille Buzz, a hyperlocal online newspaper focusing on Andersonville and Edgewater neighborhoods in Chicago, until Dec. 23, 2016.