More years ago than I care to admit, I fell in love with the desert Southwest and moved to Arizona from Chicago. Since then, I have spent years writing about architecture and design, travel, lifestyle, people, sustainability and other topics for local, regional and national publications and websites. I’ve been on the founding editorial teams for Phoenix Home & Garden, Southwest Passages and Sources+Design magazines, and am the author of Taliesin West: At Home With Frank Lloyd Wright (Rizzoli). I’ve also co-authored three design books–Desert Southwest (Bantam Books), Desert Southwest Gardens (Bantam Books) and Living Homes: Sustainable Architecture and Design (Chronicle Books).

As a Scottsdale, Arizona-based architecture and design writer, I’ve covered residential, commercial and public architecture, interiors and landscapes throughout the West for Phoenix Home & Garden, California Homes, Iconic, Sources for Design, Sunset, Vegas Seven, Modern Luxury Scottsdale, Modern Luxury Scottsdale Interiors, Renovation Style, Beautiful Homes, Western Interiors and Design, Tucson Home Magazine, Phoenix Magazine, Garden Design, Architecture Las Vegas and numerous other magazines. I try to make topics accessible and understandable, to humanize the story.

As an Arizona travel writer, I’ve covered topics from the wild burros that roam the streets of Oatman and the murky history of the chimichanga to the grandeur of the Grand Canyon and volunteerism at Arizona’s beloved state parks. My travel articles have appeared in Sunset, VIA, GMC Magazine, U.S. Airways, Arizona Highways, Chicago Tribune, United Airlines Hemispheres, Westjet’s Up!, Valley Guide and other publications. Additionally, my Arizona travel articles have been published in numerous travel guides, including the Arizona Official State Visitor’s Guide, Visit Phoenix: Official Travel Guide to Greater Phoenix, Gilbert Guide, Discover Salt River and Experience Sedona Official Visitors Guide.

But talk is cheap, and it’s exhausting to keep blathering about myself. Please browse through my recent articles and feel free to contact me about your writing needs.