As an editor, I create and manage magazines for allied healthcare professionals and help nonfiction writers put their best faces forward. I’ve written for publications such as The Los Angeles Times, WIRED, HuffPost, Sun Magazine, Everyday Health, and Today’s Dietitian, and I’ve created content for websites and professional associations. As a journalist, I’ve focused on social issues, health and wellness, and food and travel. I still do, but recently I’m more interested in personal stories and lean toward creative nonfiction. It’s a shift driven by personal experience—the discovery of unknown family and the revelation of family secrets. Not long ago, inspired by that discovery, I created  Severance, an online magazine and community for people with similarly complex family circumstances—adoptees, donor conceived people, and others who’ve been shocked to discover they’ve fallen out of the family tree. 

I’m a graduate of UCLA and earned a master of arts in critical studies at UCLA’s School of Film and Television.

I’ve always been a city person (Philly, DC, LA) and a wanderer, so it’s a mystery to me how I’ve put down roots in a tiny town in the Poconos, more than 60 miles from a bookstore, a Starbucks, or a museum. I can’t buy a book or a Frappuccino here, but I can get an outstanding margarita, watch bears playing in my yard, and hike with my musician husband to more than half a dozen waterfalls. It’s the next best thing to being where I always want to be—70 miles away in NYC.

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It’s quiet up here in the woods, so please drop in with a message, a book recommendation, a picture of your dog. Or tell me about what I’m missing in the city!

Thanks for visiting!

B.K. (But you can call me Kate. I use B.K.—a childhood nickname—because, well … go ahead … just try Googling Kate Jackson!)