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Boston, MA, US

Greater Boston Area

Collaborated with filmmaker Lindsay C. LaPointe (Linden Tree Productions) to develop storyboard for documentary short "Making Mill Town," which won Spotlight Documentary Film Awards-Gold Award, and 2nd place in Editing, Utah Dance Film Festival. The film documents an immersive multimedia performance installation that animates the history and culture of.

Weston, MA

Encourage students to read, write and think critically about the media, be engaged with the world and stay curious about whatever moves them. And report, write, edit. Repeat. Develop rigorous curriculum that mirrors newsroom needs for reporting in the digital age.

Greater Boston Area

My first article for The Boston Globe followed chef Michael Schlow (Alta Strada and others) into Boston's Chinatown to report on local chefs' love of late-night rounds of "cold tea" and mahogany clams after their days were done -- after midnight. My stories have appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine, Food, Travel, and other sections. I continue to.

Greater Boston Area

Use my insider's knowledge and expertise to write about the hottest restaurants for TimeOut Boston.

Greater Boston Area And Beyond

Journalist, producer and multimedia storyteller contributing to national, regional and local publications, including The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, TimeOut Boston travel guide 2015, Yankee Magazine, Wine Spectator and Nation's Restaurant News.

Compiled Zagat Survey results for hundreds of Greater Boston restaurants; wrote and edited restaurant reviews for Zagat Boston and Cape Cod & The Islands Restaurants guides. Online daily reporter and editor, included photography and Web production.

Report and write travel and food features.

Collaborated with editor-in-chief to produce content for luxury lifestyle publication covering New England. Contributed stories, from conceptualization to execution including line editing, supervising rewrites and fact-checking. Managed and supervised freelance writers, directed photo shoots and managed front-of-book production.

Covered various beats, including hospitality, travel, tourism, philanthropy and retail, throughout Greater Boston. Broke news, wrote profiles and online briefs.

Metrowest Area

Features and food writer and editor for daily newspaper. The New England Press Association awarded the paper (then the Middlesex News with features editor Carol Beggy at the helm) with First Place for a "Living Page or Section" in 1997. Yes, that was a long time ago. Still at it.

Somerville, NJ

Though now defunct, we published upwards of a dozen hometown newspapers covering the mid-New Jersey area. I wrote columns, stories, and edited the Real Estate section, the latter working to avoid using adjectives such as "cozy" and "quaint."

Greater New York City Area

Coordinated and helped produce Grand Tastings featuring international winemakers and producers. Wrote content for press releases and promotional materials. Arranged vineyard tours and travel for FW&S clientele. Supported brand recognition through events and strategies. *Emptied spit buckets for first U.S. Master of Wine exam in FW&S tasting room in New.

New York, NY

Performed sous chef duties in opening what turned out to be a successful and noted French restaurant in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan. Baked bread in the morning, prepped mis en place all day, and cooked on the line at night; worked front-of-house as a server in a pinch. My "claim to fame" was serving Gael Greene, then the 'make-or-break'.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Creative Nonfiction

Though I love fiction, it never fails that real-life stories -- often "stranger than fiction"--are too compelling not to write.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Heritage Studies, Graduated With Honors

Activities and Societies: Pi Gamma Mu; Public Heritage Institute With "narrative" as the common thread, this program combined.

Level Ii, Wine Geography And Winemaking

Used knowledge to write a feature story describing the pressure of learning the nuances of varietals, such as the subtle differences.

English Literature, Literature & Creative Writing