BIO

Please don't call me a content provider. It's the popular term nowadays, but I've always been and always will be a writer. Words are my business and my passion.

I've been writing for general and professional audiences for nearly 25 years. Biotechnology has been my main specialty, having contributed regularly to Biotechnology News, the oldest trade publication in the field, almost since its inception in 1980. But I've also written about business, community affairs and lighter matters for many general-interest publications, including the Birmingham (Ala.) News, Birmingham Business Journal, Eugene (Ore.) Weekly, and the Morgantown (W.V.) Dominion Post.

In addition to journalism, I have worked in public information and media relations, producing press releases, brochures and magazine copy for major academic institutions. My clients and employers have included two Harvard-affiliated hospitals as well as the state universities of New Hampshire, Alabama and Oregon. My experience also extends to copy editing and scientific manuscript preparation. I will consider and even solicit PR-type work, but only if it doesn't create conflicts of interest in my journalism career.

I hold a bachelor's degree in astronomy and physics (a double major) from the University of Michigan, and a master's in journalism and science communication from Boston University. Having lived in nine states as an adult, in the East, South, Midwest and Far West, I have a better-than-average appreciation and respect for America's cultural diversity.

Thanks to what some might call a checkered career, I'm conversant with a broad range of topics and can write to any adult audience. I can thus hit the ground running with almost any assignment that comes my way. I work fast and write clean.