I am a freelance writer. My articles have been in Salon, Entrepreneur, Writer’s Digest, The Writer, Paste, Imbibe, Bust, Scholastic Instructor, Bay Nature, PopMatters, and many others.

My short stories, essays, and poetry have been in Superstition Review, So To Speak, Rumble, Word Riot, Great Kills Press, and others.

For the last four years, I have been a judge in the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.

I maintain the home-oriented blog Savvy Housekeeping, which has been featured on Serious Eats, LifeHacker, and Sunset Magazine.

I have a MA in creative writing from San Francisco State University, where I served on the editorial board for Fourteen Hills Literary Journal. My chapbook The End of the World as I Know It won runner-up for the Michael Rubin Chapbook Award at SFSU. In 1999, I graduated from University of Oregon with a BA in English.

I am also co-founder of the writing group Word Pirates, which rocks.

I no longer have the time or energy to maintain an online list of clips, but you can see recent work on my personal blog, Oh Joy. Or, feel free to e-mail me.