With five years freelance writing experience and two as an editor at a city lifestyle magazine, I decided to pack it all in last year, put my life in storage, and trek across Southeast Asia for three months. Having grown up all over the world—Hong Kong, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Holland, Singapore, London, and Connecticut—I currently hold an English passport, an American driver's license, and that ever-constant desire to seek out the new, examine it from all sides, and then sit down straight away and write about it.

I've produced a wide variety of food, health, and travel-related pieces for dozens of magazines and newspapers, have held a weekly columnist position at three separate publications, and have been interviewed as a travel expert for SmarterTravel.com. I've written a 13-chapter coffee table book currently being featured in Southern Living magazine, was chosen as a contributor for last year's book The Very Best Weblog Writing Ever, and recently penned the script for a national television commercial. I've written features, reviews, profiles, front-of-book items, titles, captions, marketing copy, blog entries, travel guides, and list after list after list. I'm obsessive about deadlines. No, really obsessive.

I often work in parallel with my incredibly talented photographer partner, Sean, whose work you can see here. I update when I remember at my personal weblog: if you're only interested in the travel posts from my three-month adventure (and really, I won't be offended if you are), you can find them here.

After three years as an accidental Southerner, living and working in Charleston, South Carolina, I'm now based in San Francisco, California. It's pretty much everything I thought it would be.