About me I am a Seattle-based editor and freelance writer. My writing has appeared in Seattle Weekly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Real Change News, and in many online publications. My essays are published or are forthcoming in three anthologies, BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2006), Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time (Seal Press, January 2007), and Greece: A Love Story - Women Write about the Greek Experience (Seal Press, March 2007). View samples of my writing >> Contact me >>

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. -- Mark Twain