Work Experience
Houston Chronicle
Features staff writer, June 2012 - present
* Write general assignment stories for the newspaper's features and news sections
* Write regular stories about health and medical developments for the monthly HealthZone section
* Balance my own story ideas about people, politics and culture with assignments from editors
Rice University
Public Affairs staff writer, July 2011-May 2012
* Wrote news and features for the weekly Rice News, the quarterly Rice magazine and other university publications
* Wrote for university promotional products, including content for the website, materials for prospective students and an audio tour of the Rice campus
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Features staff writer, June 1999 – May 2011
* Wrote general assignment feature stories for multiple sections of the newspaper and website
* Generated a steady stream of story ideas and balanced several assignments at a time
* Developed creative and often surprising approaches to even mundane story assignments
* Produced reliably thorough work – on deadline – on assignments large and small
Education
University of Texas at Arlington
Master of Arts in English, 2010
Baylor University
Bachelor of Arts in journalism with a minor in American studies, 1999
* Editor-in-chief of student newspaper and campus magazine
* Internships covering news and features at Star-Telegram and Abilene Reporter-News
Complete résumé and references available.