Freelance writer, editor and consultant — President of Continental Divide Publishing, LLC, a turnkey publishing solutions company. Available for magazine articles; book and magazine editing and development; publishing consulting for repositioning, redesign, competitive analysis, launches, editorial training and staff development.

2003-2014: Editor & Publisher, Desert Exposure — Owned and operated award-winning monthly regional tabloid magazine serving southwest New Mexico.

2001-2003: Editor-in-Chief, F&W Publications — Writer’s Digest, Family Tree Magazine, Comair Navigator, Personal Journaling, The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic, Decorative Artist’s Workbook magazines; Writer’s Digest Books; Writer’s Digest Market Books including Writer’s Market

1998-2001: Editorial Director–Magazines, F&W Publications — Writer’s Digest, Family Tree Magazine, The Artist’s Magazine, How, Watercolor Magic, Decorative Artist’s Workbook, Popular Woodworking, Fiction Writer and I.D.magazines.

1996-1998: Executive Producer, Twin Cities Sidewalk, published by Microsoft

1992-1996: St. Paul Pioneer Press, Senior Editor/Business and Technology (1996); Senior Editor/Technology and New Ventures (1995-96); Executive Features Editor/Director of New Ventures (1994-1995); Features Editor (1992-1994)

1991-92: Editor, Milwaukee Magazine, and Editorial Director, Quad/Creative Publishing

1985-91: Director of Publications, University of Pittsburgh, and Executive Editor of Pitt Magazine, William Pitt Journal, and Managing magazine

1982-85: Circuit Writer columnist, Dubuque Telegraph-Herald

1981-82: Senior Editor, Horizon magazine

1977-81: Editor, Webb Inflight Magazine Group—Managing Editor, TWA Ambassador magazine (1980-81); Senior Editor, TWA Ambassador magazine (1979-80); Associate Editor, TWA Ambassador and Passages magazines (1978-79); Intern, TWA Ambassador and Passages (1977)

Professional Achievements

Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the West

Awards: National Magazine Awards, SPJ Top of the Rockies, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Penney-Missouri Awards/Missouri Lifestyle Awards, American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, City and Regional Magazine Association, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Women in Communications Matrix Awards, International Association of Business Communicators Golden Triangle Awards, Society of Publication Design, Mercury Awards, University and College Designers Association, Magazine Design and Production Ozzie Awards, Print Magazine Regional Design Annual, Public Relations Society of America, Iowa Newspaper Association Frank Nye Newswriting Awards, Wisconsin UPI, Chicago Art Directors Club

Speaker (partial list): Maui Writers Conference Panama Canal Cruise; Maui Writers Conference; Minnesota Christian Writers Association; Southwest Writers; Society of Professional Journalists; Colorado Press Association

Education

B.A. in journalism and English from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1978