Although I've always considered myself a writer, my actual writing experience had been limited to quarterly newsletters for my sewing students and academic papers written for my graduate film seminars. In 2011, I made contact with a magazine editor in Eugene who needed a writer to review family films for a monthly column. I was happy to take the job and since then I've enjoyed writing about vintage films, newly released features in theatres, and movies coming to DVD. In 2013, I was introduced to the craft of screenwriting at the University of Oregon, and I finished my first feature-length screenplay called On the Air in 2014.