Sculpting stories

I love shaping stories and working with writers to help sharpen their works. At Los Angeles Times, I ran the Arts and Books sections, editing articles and reviews for online and the daily paper, as well as long-form and prestige pieces for the Sunday edition. At Good media, I built a worldwide network of global contributors filing stories around the word from Pakistan to Iceland. And at LA Weekly, I managed a staff of editors to put out our edition each week.

I also work as an editorial consultant — helping to connect publications with writers and build an editorial vision, and working with writers to develop ideas, hone their writing, and create pitches that will resonate with editors. Want to learn more? Feel free to contact me here.

LA Weekly

As managing editor of LA Weekly, I worked on more than 204 issues, but a handful were particularly fun to create. Here are some special issues that I spearheaded that were really rewarding to make. 

Summer Dining Issue 2016: Modern Mexican Cuisine

A new generation of Angeleno chefs is reshaping the way we think about Mexican cuisine in our town.

Read some of the articles I assigned and edited in this series, and watch the video I commissioned/produced with filmmaker Hso Hkam on chef Ted Montoya here.

Road Trips Issue 2017

Summer in Southern California is a philosophy; that conscious decision to fling off the mantle of school stress or work woes and rustle up some buds, your love or your young spuds for some much-needed R&R. Summer is a state of mind, and for many it begins with an idea: Let's hit the road.

For this Road Trips issue, we charted a course across the Southern California region, taking Angelenos in adventures everywhere the Santa Ana winds blow. Read all the articles I assigned and edited here, and discover everything you wanted to know about the Idyll-beast, the Sasquatch of Idyllwild, in my piece about the mysterious creature.