I'm an experienced freelance writer specializing in art, architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and literature.

A mixed bag? Sure. In writing, anything is possible.

I write fun and informative articles about art, architecture, and literature for sources such as mental_floss as well as for my blog, The Dilettante. My first book, Secret Lives of the Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters and Sculptors, will be released in Fall 2008 by Quirk Books. It the contains the outrageous and uncensored profiles of the world's greatest artists, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts--like who died of syphilis, who beat his wife, and who was convicted of murder.

In addition, I have more than ten years of experience writing about the architecture and urban design industry, with articles appearing in publications such as Architectural Record, Urban Land and Planning.

I've also written about a wide range of other topics from contemporary literature to wastewater management, and once you've written about wastewater management, you can write about anything.

Freelance Writer (2000-present)
Report, write and edit articles for consumer magazines, trade publications and business journals. Some highlights:

• The strange tale of Houston's Carousel House, a lost Modern icon, for Architectural Record.
• Five of history's ugliest artistic rivalries, from Handel's duel to Gabriel Garcia Marquez getting punched in the face, for mental_floss.
• The unprecedented rise of economic prosperity on Native American reservations, for Planning.
• Latino New Urbanism and the future of the American city, for Urban Land.

ETI (Evolutionary Technologies International, Inc.) — Marketing Communications Specialist (1997-2000)

Carter & Burgess, Inc. — Special Projects Manager (1995-1997) and Marketing Coordinator (1993-1995)

Texas Christian University — Adjunct Faculty (2003)

• Writing for Public Relations.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Teaching Fellow (2001-2002)

• Rhetoric and Composition (freshmen composition).

Masters in English from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 2002

Bachelors in English and Journalism with Honors from Texas Christian University, May 1993, Summa Cum Laude

American Society of Journalists and Authors