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Where I Come From

Portrait of a compulsive copy writer…who also likes to revise

Photo credit: Lisa Miller of Studio di Luce

As a life-long writer who’s also a journalism school graduate, corporate communicator, blogger, novelist, short story writer, and poet, I’m a total word nerd. Since I currently work in a marketing department copy editing everything under the sun, I should say I’m primarily a copy editor, but that reveals only part of the picture.

I grew up in upstate New York in Syracuse; attended Syracuse University; and have lived in Hartford, Connecticut, and in Nashville, Dallas, and Denver. My three kids have grown up primarily in Denver, so that’s where my immediate family calls home. My extended family (pictured above sans one brother; I’m the second sister from the right), live all over the U.S., with my parents still in the house they bought shortly after I turned one.

Working girl

I’ve been part of creative services and marketing departments of multiple companies and have always found the corporate world, especially when I’m in a department that includes graphic designers and other creative types, a fun, secure source of income for myself as a copy writer and editor. After holding a variety of odd jobs in high school, I was impressed when I started my first…