I am a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in such publications as the Oxford American, Memphis Magazine, River Times magazine, Rhodes magazine, the Memphis Daily News, Chapter 16 (Humanities Tennessee), Memphis Business Quarterly, MEMPHIANS (Nautilus Publishing), among others. My work has been picked up by the Associated Press and Scripps Howard News Service. Since 2008, I have written the weekly humor parenting column, “Because I Said So†(E.W. Scripps, circulation 150,000) for The Commercial Appeal, and the blog Urf! since 2006.
In 2010, I won the Grand Prize for Fiction from Memphis Magazine and was accepted into the Moss Workshop for Fiction with novelist Richard Bausch at the University of Memphis. I recently won the Silver Award for profile writing from the Parenting Media Association.