I wrote short news briefs for Education Week newspaper back in 2008 and I’ve always loved newswriting. I started writing for the PSU Vanguard newspaper, covering the beats of students with children and nontraditional students. I also made a niche for my reporting by covering all women in politics news (2012 was the year of the woman, right? Sexism is dead, yes?), bridges, comics, and robots.

I wrote a series of "Better Know a Publisher" profiles for Portland Book Review. My favorite one was on Dark Horse Comics.

For an independent study in Fall 2012, I created a Wordpress website for undiscovered women writers called the PDXX Collective. We’ve been increasing our numbers of our followers bit by bit and are having a reading in May.

As you can read more about in a Prezi video I made, PDXX is intended to be literary news with a social justice element. This video illustrates how I borrowed everything I learned at Ooligan Press and used it to organize the managing of this website.

After taking a crack at developmentally editing David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel, The Pale King, I felt ready to conquer the world of unpublished novelists. My editorial work on Jessica’s novel mainly included encouraging her to expand some of her character descriptions to improve the story’s Midwestern realism, something Jessica knows quite a bit about. She seemed happy with my feedback (I included a slide about our exchange in my digital publishing Prezi video).

Here's a collage of a few literary journals where I've started sending out the many stories I wrote in 2012 and 2013. I figure that if I send out a story 100 times, it might get published in one literary journal. Even free feedback from an acquisitions editor would be welcomed. (Note: Cheery colors are essential for cultivating these literary ambitions.)