I am an award-winning, widely published essayist, winner of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize for Non-Fiction, and nominated for numerous Pushcart prizes. One essay, published in The Georgia Review, was listed as a finalist in Best American Essays of 2015. As editor of a monthly print magazine, I write short editorials monthly. As a PhD in German literature, and long term professor of research writing, I can do academic research writing as well as short, catchy, witty popular stuff.