Accomplishments

2012

News:

• “Deadbeat Dads,” Latitude News (5/12)
• Winery and Events profiles, Midwest Wine Press (4/12)
• “Fancy Beads” Short North Gazette (4/12)
• “Wrangling Volunteers,” Vineyard and Winery Management (6/12)
• “A Slice of American Dream,” Short North Gazette (3/12).
• “Black Rot and Sour Rot in Grape Berries,” The Grapevine Magazine (3/12).

Corporate Work:

• Social Media Consultation Services, Iannarino-Dexter Creative (IDC), on-going.
• Web site, Attorney Bio section, research and writing, Scott Schiff & Associates (1/12).

Creative Non-Fiction:

• “Short Linebacker Rules the Roost,” Sugar Mule (5/12)
• “Smoke in My Hands,” Anthology: Columbus Creative Co-operative (4/12)

2011 Senior Staff Writer for The Grapevine Magazine.

• “Tuscan,” “Oak & Ivy,” Greenwoman Magazine (12/11)
• “Basement Party to High Street Gallery,” Short North Gazette, (11/11)
• “Near Miss,” About Town, anthology, Columbus Creative Co-operative (12/11)
• “Groove U,” Short North Gazette, (12/11)

2008-2010 Created articles and publicity materials for Via Vecchia Winery, South Front Street, Columbus.

• Created all publicity materials, including Constant Contact email marketing, press releases, magazine articles, and regular public speaking engagements for Healing in America, Ohio.

2007-2009 Editor, The Conscious Voices Program, a weekly one-hour magazine-style show for WCRS-FM, Columbus. Originated stories, researched, wrote, and prepared for broadcast all one-hour, weekly shows.

• “Salmon,” First Place in short story, Ohio Writer’s Contest

2006-2007 Dreamweaver magazine; Elyria magazine. Senior Reporter for Bexley Public Radio (WCRX-LP)

1990-1993  Manager of Public Relations for Allied Pickfords, London, UK. I ran this international PR office handling all press and publicity, plus the publication of a monthly newsletter to a staff of 2700 people. I left to run my own corporate communications business which included the Allied Pickfords company newsletter, the Exel company newsletter, and writing for Business Mover and Moving Home magazines.

1988-1990 Local newspaper reporting for The Advertiser series, North London, UK, and the Hornsey Journal. Additional reporting for national newspapers, magazines, and television as a stringer including The Guardian, The Daily Express and The Sun, plus Thames News.

Education  BA English, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma Washington

Memberships: Society of Authors (UK), International Women Writers Guild.

Conferences: American Society of Journalists and Authors (NY) 2007, 2006; Columbus Writers Conference 2005, 2007. International Women Writers Guild (NY) 2008. Greater Leighigh Writer’s Conference 2011.