“Creativity is a crushing chore + a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, + it wants to be made through you.” ―
I’m a writer, editor, content strategist, speaker, and live storyteller. My articles, essays, and posts have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, CSNBC.com, CNN.com, The Huffington Post, Yoga Journal, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health’s publications, Women’s Health, Natural Health, Beliefnet, Vegetarian Times, and more. I hold an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
I currently freelance. I contribute to the Properties feature in The Week magazine, writing about fantasy real estate for a national magazine. Before the pandemic, I wrote for my local paper, The Daily Hampshire Gazette. My last in-house role was Managing Editor of Mom365.com. For nearly five years I was Holistic Living & Blogs Editor at Beliefnet.com; our team won several Webby Awards and a National Magazine Award. I also wrote Yoga Journal’s NYC blog, Samadhi and the City, and co-wrote Beliefnet’s popular Fresh Living blog.
I edit and create content sites and boost traffic; optimize blogs, galleries, articles, and videos for SEO; and engage audiences through various social channels. In print-land, I was Editor-in-Chief of Mom365 magazine, a quarterly publication for brand-new moms, and was founding Articles Editor at Breathe, a yoga-inspired lifestyle magazine. Before that, I was Editor of Mauiana Magazine in, yep, Maui, Hawaii.
I’ve competed and placed in several of New England Public Media’s Valley Voices story slams, plus I told a story for a Paradise City Dragon Boat fund-raising event.
In the way back times, I gave talks for the Times Square Alliance’s Yoga in Times Square event and was the keynote speaker for the Berkshire Visitors Bureau’s annual conference. TV-wise, I’ve been featured on ABC’s “Nightline,” talking to Cynthia McFadden about an essay I wrote on The Secret; I was on a live Fox News show discussing the spiritual implications of 2012; and I spoke on Fox affiliate My9 multiple times to offer health and wellness advice.
I’ve interviewed a whole lot of celebrities—from Richard Gere to Lou Reed to Ellen Burstyn—about their spiritual lives. Plus, I’ve grilled most of the biggie holistic spiritual teachers, including Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Caroline Myss, Krishna Das, and others. My interview with Alice Walker is included in the anthology Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality, and one of my chats with Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist, was republished in his novel The Witch of Portobello.
In addition to my journalism degree, I have a B.A. in creative writing from Beloit College. I’m also a certified Kripalu yoga instructor. A practitioner of yoga for nearly 20 years, I’m working on a memoir about yoga, cancer, and where Western and alternative healing modalities meet.
Though I’m a native New Yorker, I now live with my family in Northampton, Massachusetts, which I love, and where there is, thankfully, a train that goes straight to NYC.