I'm a designer/wordsmith in Knoxville, TN. My career started seven years ago on the copy desk of The Roanoke Times in Virginia,
where I learned how to dissect sentences and lay out news pages. After three years on the desk, I followed my growing love of design to the paper's features department. In addition to designing daily features sections, I led the newspaper's entertainment tab, Inside Out, through its launch in 2004 and subsequent redesign in 2006. Now in Knoxville, I work for the weekly pub, Metro Pulse, where I lay out pages, design ads and help manage its web site.