I worked as a public-affairs officer for an academic medical center, as a writer and editor for newspapers and magazines, and as a corporate publications director and speechwriter before earning a doctorate in English/creative writing at Western Michigan University in 2006. My writing has appeared in consumer magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, and Poets & Writers; in newspapers including The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Newsday; and in literary journals including The Literary Review, Notre Dame Review, New Delta Review, River City (now The Pinch), and Gargoyle Magazine. On the whole, I’ve published profiles, interviews, investigative stories, in-depth series, long-form features, essays, health and medical articles, breaking news, columns, and most recently, short stories and poems. I’ve also edited work in most of those forms or genres.
After teaching mainly literature and creative writing since 2006 at Kalamazoo College, I will get to draw on almost all my professional experience starting in Fall 2012, when I’ll begin teaching multimedia journalism and advising the Albion Pleiad at Albion College.
I’m excited about the chance to apply whatever I’ve learned about writing and teaching to a field, journalism, that’s vital to democracy. I also welcome the opportunity to develop young talent in this era when convergent journalism is still being invented.
