My articles have appeared in many publications including Martha Stewart Weddings, Women’s Health, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar, Country Home, and W and on the Internet for MSN/AOL and ivillage. I am frequent contributor to Philadelphia Magazine’s Home & Garden, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and New Jersey Life and I am an adjunct professor of journalism at Temple University. My specialty is lifestyle writing –– home and design, fashion design, collecting, health and fitness, art, and people.

Before I freelanced, I spent a decade working in Manhattan. At the fashion design house of Michael Kors I learned everything about the business – from how collections are designed, produced, promoted, and sold - while I studied at night for an M.A. in Journalism at New York University. When I was finished I wanted to use my experience and education to write about design. My first staff job was with Self magazine followed by a fashion editorial post with W magazine and Women’s Wear Daily (WWD). I spent six years there writing about the latest fashion and retail trends, critiquing runway shows, and profiling designers.

After my time in Gotham, I found the lovely Delaware River town of Yardley, PA in Bucks County to spend the next chapter of my life in with my husband and three children (circa 1995-2000). A native of the Lehigh Valley, I left the East Coast for only a few years for my undergraduate studies at Saint Mary’s College of Notre Dame. It was there that I was bitten by the reporting bug when I became a sportswriter for the University of Notre Dame’s daily college newspaper,The Observer.

As a freelancer I helped launch Philadelphia Style magazine (1998), wrote fashion columns for The Philadelphia Inquirer (1999-2000), launched a Sunday home magazine for the same publication, all while writing for national magazines about everything from luxury fragrances and skin care, to interior designers and fashion designers, to mediums to fine artists.

In 2005 I wrote a coffee table book about the work of 50 interior designers in Philadelphia. The 200-page book, Spectacular Homes of Greater Philadelphia, hit stores in May 2006. It was written about in Philadelphia Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Bucks Magazine and The Bucks County Courier Times. In 2006 I took over as Deputy Editor of New Jersey Life magazine, a luxury lifestyle publication, based in Lambertville, NJ.

I have many projects in the works and am always looking for great stories to tell. Check out my site and, click on my resume if you want to read more about my experience, and contact me if I can write something for you.