Experience

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Writer

• Hundreds of blog posts about interior design, window coverings, and bedding.
• 180+ product descriptions for window coverings.
• Press releases, how-to guides, buying guides, web content, marketing materials, safety inserts, and more for a home decor company.
• 500+ articles, press releases, blogs, and pages of web content on the topics of adoption, foster care, pregnancy, parenting, and adoption reunion.

• Was the sole writer for an adoption-related e-magazine, brainstorming and writing five unique, targeted articles each month for over four years.
• Wrote work-at-home articles for Wahm.com.
• Researched for and wrote three e-books. Topics included general back pain, back pain in women, and general nutrition.
• Business and technology staff writer/columnist with AGBeat.com for a year and a half. One of my articles was featured on the New York Times Blog.
• Wrote full-time and on a freelance basis for an SEO agency, on topics ranging from weight loss pills to trucking companies to outdoor furniture.
• Hundreds of articles, blogs, and pieces of web content for an e-Learning company. Topics included food handler training, contractor associations, and food safety.

College Professor

Rio Salado College

• CRW 170 - Introduction to Writing Fiction
  
• CRW 201 - Portfolio
  
• CRW 271 - Topics in Writing: Fiction
  
• ENG 235 - Magazine Article Writing
  

Brigham Young University-Idaho

• ENG 106 - Basic Writing
  
• GS 120 - Life Skills
  
• FDENG 301 - Advanced Writing and Research
  

Curriculum Developer

• I rewrote the curriculum for the ENG235 - Magazine Article Writing course. The fourteen-week program teaches students the ins and outs of breaking into the magazine writing industry.

• After completing this course, I was interviewed, and that interviewed appeared in the Tempe Republic. The interview was also posted on the Rio Salado blog, which can be found here.
• Rewrote the course for CRW170 - Introduction to Writing Fiction .

Editor

• I worked one-on-one with authors, editing and revising their novels in order to get them ready for publication. This experience combined two of my favorite things, reading and editing.

• To see books I've edited, please visit my portfolio.

Education

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M.A.L.S. in Arts & Culture with a Creative Writing Concentration
I graduated from University of Denver in 2011. While a lot of focus was placed on creative writing, I had varied areas of study within the graduate program. Some of these include:

• Writing the Short Story
• Children's Literature
• Graduate Research and Writing
• The Writer's Workshop
• Nonfiction
• Fiction
• World Literature
• The Effects of Globalization
• World Visual and Performance Art
• Best Practices in the Arts
• Cultural Participation and Planning

B.A. in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis and a French Minor
I graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2006. Because I was on the fast-grad program, I completed my four-year degree in three years. Some of my areas of study included:

• Grammar
  
• Rhetoric
• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• American Literature
• French Literature
• British Literature
• Business and Technical Writing
• Writing for Children
• Children and Young Adult Literature
  
• Creative Writing