Services

 Writing

  • news stories and features for print and online media;
  • arts and book reviews;
  • opinion pieces on cultural change, social justice and life as an American abroad;
  • destination features for travel publications and guidebooks;
  • full-length articles and compact picture stories on downstream impacts of climate change in Peru;
  • award-winning blogger at An American in Lima.

Media outlets: Huffington Post, MSNBC.com, Miami Herald, Village Voice, Living in Peru, New Times, Caribbean Lifestyles, Porthole, Florida History & the Arts, Florida Trend.

Chapters in guidebooks published by Knopf, Gallimard, Touring Editores, ABC Publishing

Author of guidebooks published by SOS Emergency Guides and PPI Group.

Editing

  • copy editing for print and online outlets;
  • scholarly book editing for University Press of Florida (current client);
  • more than 20 years’ editorial experience in a variety of capacities (from reseacher to editor in chief) for U.S. national magazines and local newspapers;

Clients and employers:  University Press of Florida (current client), Miami Book Fair International (staff writer, 5 years) Music Alive (managing editor, 1 year, editor, 4 years), Porthole Cruise Magazine (contributing editor, 2 years), Honeymoon (guest editor, Fall 2006), Miami News Times (copy editor, 2 years), People (proofreader, 2 years) 

Fixing for TV productions in Peru

  • location scouting;
  • booking interviews with government officials, police, climate change advocates, local populations;
  • securing filming permits;
  • on-air producing; 
  • translating interviews; 

Clients:  TODAY Show and NBC Dateline (2010), NBC Nightly News (2009)

Teaching

  • undergraduate, for-credit courses in English literature, Writing about Literature, Beginning Fiction Writing, English Composition;
  • intermediate and advanced English classes for nonnative speakers, at university level in Peru:  English for Business, Level 5 English, Conversation Class

Employers:  Professional Translation & Interpretation Program TIP, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), associate professor, 2009 to present *2011 “Teacher of the Year,” TIP program;  Santa Fe College (adjunct professor, 2005 – 2007); University of Florida (graduate teaching assistant, 2002- – 2004); University of Miami Writing Center (lecturer, 1995 – 1998)

  • memoir writing workshops
  • fiction and poetry workshops

Clients:  Alachua County School Board, ElderHostal of South Florida, Learning Annex of South Florida, Miami Beach Senior Center