Professional writer and editor for over a decade with Master's degree in English and writing featured on NPR and in magazines such as "Beyond Baroque," "Bordercrossing Berlin," "Floodwall," "Absent," and "Fiction Southeast," among other publications. I have also written hundreds of articles for Demand Studios subsidiary sites, such as ehow. Besides graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric from the University of California-Berkeley, I earned an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. I speak English, German, and Spanish and play piano.