I offer nine years experience as a freelance writer and editor for corporations, websites and print publications. I have written newsletters, press releases and other corporate communications materials for Coltec Industries/BF Goodrich, the Speakers Network and the Greater Charlotte YMCA, among other companies. I have contributed more than 200 articles to national, state and local publications, including California Real Estate, MDNews, Today's Charlotte Woman, Charlotte, Carolina Woman and Focus on the Coast, among others. In addition, my writing has earned national recognition. A magazine profile I wrote about an overachieving college student earned a Hearst award for personality profile writing, and another profile about eight breast cancer survivors in the Raleigh area was awarded the Joanna Howell Fund and a Reader's Digest Magazine Writing Scholarship. I also offer a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing. I am a published fiction writer who has written a novel and collection of s