I’m an author, editor, copywriter, and award-winning design journalist with 15 years of experience working with editors and business clients. Trained as a creative writer, I bring a focused, professional approach to all my assignments — from brand messages to magazine features, from art books to short stories, memoirs, and radio reporting. I'm also the co-principal of 4word, a partnership that develops, pitches, creates, and executes top-quality editorial for branding and design firms, advertising agencies, and small businesses. I live in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.
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Here's another essay for the Good Men Project — this one about my men's group. more
GMP just reprinted my memoir, "Chew," from Tiny Lights magazine. more
My essay inviting men to use "I" when they speak got great response on the Good Men Project! more
4word helped create launch and marketing materials for OverNear, the new social networking app. more
My radio story about LA's newly-synchronized signal lights ran on KQED's "California Report." more
I'm researching men's gatherings. Are you a man? Please take my 10-minute Men's Survey! more
A piece of creative nonfiction for The Good Men Project: Meeting my doppelgänger. more
4word produces fresh copywriting for Sterling Brands: ice cream, liquor, spices, laundry products... more
CARTWHEEL, a new alt-art sales and services startup, needed a tagline and copy for its website. more
The Good Men Project published (and HuffPo reprinted!) a recent memoir about my dad. more huffpo
I wrote and edited marketing copy for The ManKind Project's first-ever online training program. more
I interviewed leading arts donors to help United States Artists develop a major new capital campaign. more
DISTINC hired me to help develop new identity and web content for the Casting Society of America. more
Here's a sweet holiday piece I did for KQED about karaoke night at a Skid Row church in Los Angeles. more
For "The California Report," I found a hidden L.A. gem — the Chavez Ravine Arboretum. more
The Other Side, the last piano bar in Silver Lake, has closed. I reported on it for KQED Public Radio. more
Here's a link to my radio segment about helicopter noise in Los Angeles. What??! more
I wrote a series of "Thoughts" for DISTINC, a Pasadena branding agency. more
With DISTINC, I helped The Broad Stage develop new program and fundraising materials. more +more ++more
I wrote a series of case studies for DISTINC. more
A quickie for Boing Boing about street artists appearing on "The Simpsons." more ep 501
With DISTINC, I helped LA's BEST with a successful direct mail fundraising campaign. more
Great review of Fingerprint No. 2 in Felt & Wire. (I wrote the long essay that anchors the book.) more
Pearlfisher, a New York design group, was looking for a naming convention for one of its clients. more
BSP, a Culver City brand strategy firm, hired me to create titles on their new website. more
I wrote the long essay that anchors Fingerprint No. 2, Chen Design's beautiful new book. more
For Sterling Brands in New York, more romance copy for a couple of well-known ice cream brands. more
A piece on KQED Public Radio about apprenticeships for at-risk teens in Los Angeles. more
Fun quick hit about L.A.'s famous Soap Plant/Wacko store for a recent "California Report." more
My profile of "True Blood"'s music supervisor, Gary Calamar, ran on KQED Public Radio. more
My feature on "Design by Surprise" appeared in Print, where I'm a contributing editor. more
For DISTINC, I wrote the fund-raising piece for MUSE/IQUE, a new orchestra in Pasadena. more about
KQED ran my story about how GPS's make it tough to live near the Hollywood sign. more 
The California Report ran my story about street art in Los Angeles (and at the MOCA!). more
DISTINC hired me to create web, program, and marketing materials for United States Artists. more yet more
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