Hi! I’m a senior writer and sub-editor with a background in communications and public relations who's spent the past 19 years freelancing and working on staff at magazines in Auckland, Tauranga and Sydney: InStyle, Fashion Quarterly, Miss FQ, Metro, North & South, Sunday, NZ Listener, Next, Woman’s Day, NZ Woman’s Weekly, Australian Women's Weekly, Woman, New Idea, Simply You, Cleo, Girlfriend, Homestyle, Home NZ, Your Home & Garden, NZ Geographic, Together Journal, NZ Weddings, Cuisine, Toast, NZ Gardener, Life & Leisure, Kia Ora, Scout, Remix, Mindfood, Good Health, Thrive, NZ Women's Health, NZ Marketing and UNO, as well as online at BusinessDesk. My writing has been published in these titles, the Bay of Plenty Times and across various online platforms.
I'm currently working as deputy editor/chief sub-editor/senior writer of bimonthly interiors magazine Homestyle and freelancing in between, mostly for other magazines but also for a range of commercial clients, for whom I work on all manner of material, including PR/marketing collateral, and website and social media content.
Before moving into journalism, I worked as a communications coordinator at Barnardos' Family Advocacy & Information Centre, and as an account executive at PR consultancy Network Communication, publicising successful brands including ASB, Heinz Wattie's and Burger King.
Outside of work but work-related, in 2017, I returned to my PR roots to become a driving force behind the promotion of week-long, sell-out Auckland Fringe Festival show Sea Change by water ballet troupe the Wet Hot Beauties, with whom I also performed. Today, I'm a singer with SHE Choir Auckland and a key, long-term member of our committee, actively involved in multiple elements of organisation for rehearsals and gigs, including our internal and external communications.
A strong storyteller and strategic thinker, I'm big on all things fashion and beauty, health and wellbeing, architecture and design, film and theatre, arts and culture, lifestyle and travel. Whether editorial or commercial, I'm available for freelance work worldwide via: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ph...