Portfolio
Real pieces for real publications, and a few examples of what long-form storytelling looks like when it's done right. Every clip shown is the final, published version.
Featured in & worked with
Nebraska Community News — 2021
A thirty-two-year-old independent grocery store closes after a chain opens twelve miles east. This is what it looked like inside, and what it means for the 340 households left without a nearby option.
NightOwlOS — 2023
Thirteen years of apologizing for a non-standard schedule, and the one conversation that made it stop. About productivity, identity, and designing a working life around how your brain actually works.
Platte County Record — 2019
Greg Fouts has called auctions for twenty-two years. Last fall he sold his father's farm. The line between professional distance and personal grief, and where those two things actually overlap.
Confidential — Ongoing since 2023
Ongoing editorial partnership with an independent creator — monthly long-form content, newsletter writing, and brand voice development. Consistent output across a year and a half of collaboration.
Thirteen years covering small-town Nebraska — city councils, farm auctions, main street business closures — gave me a nose for the story underneath the official story. That beat taught me how to listen without an agenda and how to write something that respects the reader's intelligence. The result is a portfolio built on real reporting, not assigned topics.
Clients who need this work are usually looking for someone who can go somewhere, talk to people who don't want to talk, and come back with copy that earns the reader's time. I know how to do that. I've been doing it for over a decade.
Long-term content partnerships require understanding what a client actually sounds like — not just what they want to sound like. This work starts with a discovery process: reading what they've already written, finding the authentic voice underneath the polish, and then building a content system that reinforces it consistently over time.
The output isn't a style guide that sits in a drawer. It's monthly deliverables that sound like them, on deadline, with enough runway to build an audience instead of just filling a content calendar.
The kind of essay that takes three drafts before the real subject appears. Often the "real subject" is about something the writer didn't know they were writing about — which means the writer doesn't know what they need until it's done. This is the hardest, and the most satisfying, kind of work.
I write these for myself and for clients who have a story they know is worth telling but don't know how to shape. The process is the same: find the shape first, then write toward it.
Want something like this?
I take on freelance writing projects, editorial consulting, and occasional contract work. If you have something that needs writing done right — and done on time — reach out.