As a little girl, most of my waking hours were spent with my nose in a book or playing by the creek in the foothills of Kennesaw Mountain. When I wasn’t searching for soldiers’ buttons left behind in the Civil War trenches near the house or reading a story, I was writing.
The first tale I remember composing was about a princess named Helena. Mysteriously transported to another realm one afternoon as she sat reading a book beneath a mushroom, Helena discovered an alternate reality in which frogs could talk and dogs ruled the land with an iron fist. I found putting words together to form a story so delightful that I have never given it up-even if the topics have changed.
My paternal grandfather, a small man known for his bear hugs and tall tales, also instilled in me a love for the fine art of Southern storytelling. I used to sit for hours at a time as he tirelessly spun yarns about life in the small Southern town of Brunswick, Georgia. In high school, I was fortunate enough to have a creative writing class with Mr. Lewis, a passionate literature teacher who wasn’t afraid to hold class in old graveyards or the football stadium if it provided an inspirational change of scenery.
From Mr. Lewis, I learned how to change my perspective. At Vanderbilt University, I studied creative writing and took my first poetry composition course with Kate Daniels, a talented Southern poet who showed me that deeper meanings are often communicated with fewer words.
After graduation, I moved to France to complete a master’s in literature at l’Université Paul Valery. My thesis covered the Re/Vision of the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone in contemporary American women’s poetry. After landing unexpectedly in a writing job at a small newspaper a few years later, I discovered a love for journalism. I realized that I love writing features about interesting people and their personal stories. I especially enjoy combining my love for travel with writing and anything connected to language.
For seven years, I wrote a column on Innovations for the Jerusalem Post’s UpFront magazine twice a month, a monthly Letter from Israel for Julep magazine and published a broad range of articles for different publications. I also worked in PR/marketing writing and technical/content writing for websites, optimizing SEO, adwords and lots of other fun tools.
In recent years, I’ve started helping companies and celebrities improve their digital advertising campaigns on facebook, instagram, twitter and google. I specialize in creating content that will engage users — and I know how to run tests that will find out which way is best. Because if there is one thing I’ve learned from marketing, it’s that we really don’t know. Not until we test.
My unpaid passion is aerial acrobatics. In the last two years I’ve started writing and producing shows. I wrote “Midsummer Wet Dream” for Midburn in 2017 — a show on a 10meter high truss that included 14 actors and acrobats. I’m currently working on 2 shows — a solo show for a female circus star and a larger production for English speakers in Tel Aviv. In 2019, I choreographed a show and performed at Burning Man at the effigy itself. That was beyond words – even for me.
So far, I haven’t fallen asleep beneath any magic mushrooms.
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