About Me | Extended Bio

I began professionally writing when I was 16 - in my small hometown in Kentucky, the Glasgow Daily Times hired me to help out with sports coverage. I got paid (a tiny amount) to provide sports coverage for my hometown paper, finishing high school with upwards of 100 professional bylines.

I earned a Singletary scholarship to the University of Kentucky, where I majored in journalism and freelanced outside of the classroom. In that time, I covered UK sports, including the 2014-15 men’s basketball team, which was a couple shot clock violations away from an historic undefeated season.

After graduation, I interned at Sports Illustrated in New York City, then moved to Detroit to work at CBSDetroit.com, covering the city’s four major professional teams. From there, I went to the Kansas City Star as a general assignment sports reporter. My story about Daisy Tackett, the former University of Kansas rower who initiated a Title IX suit against KU, won a Missouri Associated Press Media Editors award for sports feature writing. 

And then? All-encompassing burnout. After several years giving up my weekends and nights for sports coverage, skipping class to go to open basketball practices, and hustling to work 50-60 hours a week… I realized full-time journalism was no longer for me. 

Since 2018, I’ve been successfully freelancing as a writer and editor. In that time, I’ve written about everything from sports to supply chain logistics, agriculture to fashion, beauty to business, technology to front porches (really! I wrote a story about front porches in the Midwest). I even lived in France for a summer to cover the 2019 Women’s World Cup. —>

Since I went independent, I’ve also:

  • Ghostwritten for 10+ CEOs/organization leaders

  • Copy edited 4 book manuscripts

  • Simplified complex topics like legal cases, technology, genetics, supply chains, and more into readable, actionable content

  • Wrote a personal essay for Rebellious Magazine that was the #9 most read story on their site in 2021

     

On a personal level, I love to travel. I’m partially nomadic and try to spend chunks of the year traveling internationally. My home base for now is in Los Angeles, California. 

I’m a native Kentuckian - decadent and depraved, I am. Within the U.S., I’ve also lived in Albuquerque, Kansas City, Detroit, New York, and Seattle. 

I’m a lover of hip hop, hiking, and a perfectly made Old Fashioned (maybe not all at the same time, though).