I love working with writers. I love the back-and-forth collaboration, the fun and intimacy of exchanging ideas, the shared exasperation, and the satisfaction of bringing a compelling story to life.

I believe that all writers could use a great editor, someone to serve as inspiration and reality check, strategist and cheerleader. I bring out the best in all my clients through my core values of authenticity, integrity, and positive expectancy. (Basically, I know you can do it!) My goal is to amplify each writer’s own voice while adding narrative rigor, structure, and flow.

I also believe that we all get stuck, and my job is to guide writers through the low points.

The thread that goes through most of my work is a love of storytelling and adventure. My first job in journalism was at National Geographic, as the assistant to the Shipwrecks and Expeditions Editor (a real job title, I swear). I went on to Civilization, Preservation, and Outside, where, after 20 years editing features, I still serve as a contributing editor and host of the Outside Book Club. I currently work with clients like Outside, Rizzoli Books, Patagonia, as well as with many magazine writers and book authors. In March 2022, Torrey House Press published my first anthology, First & Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100, celebrating the centennial of America’s first wilderness.

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with my husband, daughter, and maybe too many pets. (The guinea pig might have put us over the top.) A southerner turned westerner, I’m originally from Nashville, Tennessee, where I return often for fried chicken and humidity. I have a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.

Photo Credit: Thiago Bahia