Hey there! I’m CJ … writer, editor, photographer and perpetual wanderer. After spending several years focused on environmental journalism, I’ve found my way back to the writing I love best: creative nonfiction.

Since launching my freelance writing and editing career in 2014, my personal essays and journalism have appeared in HuffPost, The Guardian, GreenBiz, Mongabay, National Geographic, The Forge Literary Magazine, Southeast Review and many others. I’ve also created content for dozens of corporate and nonprofit clients.

I’m currently at work on a memoir, which chronicles my search for the truth about my maternal grandmother’s struggle with mental illness. I hope that by sharing my family’s stories — and my own — I can help others in some small way.

My story (the micro version) goes like this: For 50 years, I lived with a wicked case of undiagnosed ADHD and experienced regular bouts of depression. It was a life of wandering and longing, always searching for that place where I fit. Now that I understand my neurodivergent brain, I’m building a life that works for me as a creative human and member of a loving family. And, I wander with my camera, discovering beauty along paths less traveled … but always coming home to my beloved Brooklyn, where I live with my husband and daughter.