About

About

Greetings! I am a commercial fiction novelist and independent journalist. And because neither endeavor alone is challenging enough, I also work a full-time marketing job and do media analysis.

I love and write stories about lovable, flawed people chasing their dreams. I am particularly intrigued by the exploration of friendship in fiction. I’m a romantic at heart who loves love, but love always gets the spotlight. I’d like to see friendship get the limelight it has long deserved.

As an independent journalist, I have written for: Variety, The Washington Post, the BBC, The Guardian, and Cosmopolitan. For years, I covered Saturday Night Live for Variety as the publication’s go-to SNL freelance expert and reporter.

Each year, I attend the Cannes Film Festival (2027 will be my 9th year going), as accredited press. I attend as a correspondent and film critic for France Media Group. I also go to Paris Fashion Week every year to report on the shows for Bonjour Paris. I am fluent in French, and I used to live in Paris. I go back whenever I can.

I have an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Westminster in London. I have studied writing at the Yale Writers’ Workshop and the Second City writing program. I was selected for Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab in London and have taught pitching and writing workshops for organizations such as the Irish Writers Center and Female Film Club.

Born in the Midwest, I am primarily based in St. Louis, but you will also regularly find me in New York City, London, and Paris—cities where I used to live and return to regularly for business and fun.

I am a mom and wife, and I also dance and teach ballet.