About Me
I’ve always been a writer, even when I didn’t think I was one, or a very good one. I was ten years old when I wrote in my journal, “One day I will write a book.”
Forty years later I made good on that promise. Ravenous: A Food Lover’s Journey from Obsession to Freedom was my first book. I’m currently working on a new memoir about the joy of living a fully creative life.
I’ve made my livelihood through my communications work, running the communications departments for media companies including Salon.com, Yoga Journal (where I also was the Director of Foreign Editions), Ten Speed Press, Collins Publishers, The Shift Network, and more. I’ve worked on books, magazines, websites, in online education — promoting a whole cast of characters: world-famous athletes, famous chefs (some with peculiar areas of expertise — including the best ways to cook chicken feet), activists including a former Black Panther, yoga gurus, experts in psychedelics and altered states, and many other fascinating humans.
Through it all, I was committed to clear writing, clear messaging, and creative communication. I’m proud of all that time in the trenches.
And now, welcome Act III—Women’s Writing Circles
In a recent Wild Writing class, our writing prompt was “I write because…” and I wrote this: I write because … there are parts of myself I want to know better. I write because … I love digging into the weeds of what it means to be human. I write because … I want to be radically alive in the time that’s left to me on this gorgeous planet.