Freelance writer and editor. Made in Ohio, based in Berlin.
I’ve been thinking a lot about getting paid lately. Not only because I’ve been a self-employed editor and writer for the last six months, but because the internet blew up this week over an incident in which The Atlantic asked a writer to adapt a hella long story for zero dollars. Freelance writers went into […]
MoreRemember how I quit my job last year? This zine is my testimony of how I followed my heart and left my dream job and gets more into the details of how and why I quit. Now for sale on Etsy! An aerial view of my desk while I was working on the zine:
MoreWhile I was on my crafty book tour, I took a brief detour between Pittsburgh and Cleveland to talk to Jacquie Marino‘s magazine publishing class at Kent State’s journalism school. I love any excuse to visit my alma mater, but I was especially stoked to talk about the current state of magazine publishing and how I went […]
MoreI totally quit my job last week. It wasn’t some kind of take-this-job-and-shove-it table-flipping experience. It was totally civilized and without raised voices or tears. I gave five weeks’ notice, and my last day is going to be Sept. 4. So what’s my deal? I remained employed for the entirety of the great recession—no small […]
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