I’m Better
on Paper.
When I first spoke at age 3, I was incomprehensible. The average person speaks 130 syllables in a minute; my speech therapist clocked me at 400. Just 220 short of a Guiness World Record.
I’m more comprehensible now (though my friends might argue that point), but I’ve always preferred the written word. Where my thoughts and ideas can be understood thanks to rigorous editing.
Education
VCU Brandcenter l 2025-
Copywriting
Bookshop Ad School l 2025
Oberlin College l 2020
English and Creative Writing
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2024-2025
Grammar Nazi and writing tutor.
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2023-2024
Wrote engaging content for a variety of businesses, from roofing to janitorial to personal injury law.
AI is not a competitor for creative work, but it is for this. A daily trial in creativity and hard work to not be replaced by ChatGPT.
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2021-2022
The Netflix of Continuing Medical Education, featured in TIME’s List of Best Inventions of 2021. Wrote blogs about medical and surgical topics to an audience of doctors as a liberal arts graduate who failed science.
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April-August 2021
Managed copy editing, book production, and executive assistant duties for Judith Regan, a successful publisher who’s former assistants have formed a support group.
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2020-2021
Wrote reviews and editing notes for PW’s self-published section, BookLife, where authors and review writers got to try their stuff.
Experience
Resume
EXTRAS
Writing What I Had No Business Writing
a blog page
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"I am not an expert in burlesque, so I am not qualified– nor inclined– to critique the show’s “sexual appeal.” Read here
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“Do not zig-zag. Alligators can run fast but only in short bursts before tiring out, so it’s better to just run.” Read here
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“Kanner & Pintaluga has extensive experience in dealing with difficult employers and insurers after a slip and fall.” Read here
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“If the owner still hasn’t paid, then – and this is actually in the patent filing – the radio will start emitting ‘an incessant and unpleasant noise’ every time the owner enters the vehicle.”
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“While this procedure has the benefit of fewer follow-up surgeries and shorter recovery times, it is considered controversial because there is no randomized trial demonstrating its safety.” Read here
TV Pilot
Eva is the first girl in a long time to go to Holy High, an all-girl Catholic boarding school in the middle of nowhere Ohio, by choice.
She makes two new friends who are the angel and devil on her shoulder—only that’s more true than she realizes.