I’m a writer who found her voice on LinkedIn of all places — and now writes very cool copy for peeps.
And herself.
(::Snaps::)
Also there’s a toucan involved.
After fifteen years in editorial leadership and brand storytelling, I left corporate life to raise two very cute future members of the workforce and freelance-write during naptime. Somewhere along the way, a few toxic businessmen with, like, FOUR TONS of audaci-straw broke every single one of mah camel’s vertebrae and sent him straight to the ICU. Suffice it to say, the buttoned-up, prim-and-proper, Professional Vanessa was dead and buried — and the ghost of my ’02 LiveJournal voice grabbed the keyboard for good.
Now I rage-write essays about identity, motherhood, ambition, burnout, millennial nostalgia, creativity, birds, and the general psychological chaos of being alive — predominantly on LinkedIn. And write copy for fun brands.
For some reason, Gremlin Books named me a Reed Press Editorial Fellow (2026) and offered me a book deal, which still feels fake.
I write copy for cool brands.
I write like I’m runnin’ outta time on mah Substack.
And I’m hopin’ to sell a whole lotta copies of mah book.
The best of both worlds: deeply reliable in her work, and genuinely empathetic in how she works with people.
A memoir-in-essays and creativity CPR manual for over-optimized millennials, and a weirdly heartfelt collision of nostalgia, cringe, reinvention, and pink sparkle.
Gremlin Books · Forthcoming 2027
Da f*ck is a Touks?“Her writing reads like the internal monologue so many of us were taught to tone down, but never actually could.”
Nicole Reed · Founder, Gremlin Books & Reed Press
Lawyers, look away.