Hi there! I'm Creature Comforts Chief at StayWoodsy, a collection of modern, secluded cabins built into the beautifully wooded landscape of our 30-acre property in the Austin hill country. I’m also a writer, an editor, a playwright, a reader, a roadtripper, an animal devotee, a wife and a mother. My husband and partner is a rock star builder whose prints are all over this property. He crushes it on the tractor, and is the artist behind the steel sculptures that pepper the property. Our two beautiful boys have four legs and pee outside. Our beautiful girl has two legs and prefers her bathroom. I majored in literature and creative writing at UT Austin, with a minor and graduate work in screenwriting. After moving to Los Angeles, I studied playwriting with Scott Horstein, who dramaturged for Arthur Miller on Resurrection Blues, and screenwriting with DreamWorks senior story analyst Pilar Alessandra. My writing has appeared in papers such as the Austin-American Statesman, The Austin Chronicle, The Boston Globe and The Denver Post, onstage at South Coast Repertory, and is regularly featured online. I enjoyed a 10-year career as managing editor at a news syndicate based in LA. Currently reading: Anxious People Just finished: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Little Birds Current movie recommend: My Octopus Teacher Best show IMHO: The White Lotus (and anything written by Mike White) Guilty pleasures: New Orleans, mac n cheese, bubbles in the hot tub Things that make me want to do more, better, something: PAWS Shelter of Central Texas, CASA for Children, Sea Shepherd, Navy SEALS, people who cook. Take-to-the-grave secret: my political affiliation. I edit right, left and center, so my political affiliation is none of my business. I divide my time unevenly between Joshua Tree, LA and Austin.