I like to research and write about how people enjoy, interact with, and build identities around things. I tend to return to how food, science, medicine, culture, gender, and history topics shape our understanding of the world we live in.
I find, pitch, and research stories like the history of using a form of botulism and potato water to make a delicious pioneer bread (and baked it myself!), how to make a soup from “zombie fungus”, the movement to protect our rights to our own brains in the face of Elon Musk and others’ neurotechnology, how the Oxford English Dictionary began as a murderer’s pet project, deadly victorian beauty tips, the strange profession of the Sin Eater, the search for a cure for Sudden Oak Death, cruel vinegar valentines, traveling lighthouse libraries, wartime knitting espionage, how some women used to fend off would-be attackers with hat pins, how others invented the whooping cough vaccine, and many, many other topics.
I write for local news and commerce from time to time, write grants and marketing copy, and I’m sure I would be happy to write for you, too.
My Muckrack site is here, and my catalogue of many articles at Atlas Obscura is here.
Editing and Proofreading
I’ve edited and proofread materials for academic publishers like John Wiley & Sons, non-profits, and books (like this one by evolutionary psychologist Herbert Terrace, published by Columbia University Press). I bring conscientious, collaborative, and decisive proofreading and editing to diverse projects.
Scriptwriting
I also write scripts, treatments, and storyboards, including the script for this educational video on the theory of endosymbiosis for a course by HarvardX.
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