I’M A FREELANCE JOURNALIST, essayist and fiction writer based in Cleveland, Ohio. As a journalist, I’m a general interest writer – almost no topic escapes my curiosity—and my articles have spanned many subjects, from zebrafish bioengineered to glow in the presence of pollutants to feminist philanthropy to bluebird preservation efforts. I’ve published articles and essays in the New York Times, Salon.com, Ms, the Oprah Magazine, Discover, New Scientist, Gourmet, Vegetarian Times, More, Food & Wine, Tin House, Poets & Writers, Sojourners, Industry Week, and many other publications. I've also published fiction in literary magazines, including West Branch, the Indiana Review and online at Reading Divas and Verbsap, and was awarded a major Ohio Arts Council fellowship for fiction for 2003-2004. My Memoir, Stalking the Divine, (Hyperion 2003, Plume 2004) won the American Society of Journalists and Authors' Best Nonfiction Book Award in 2004. A personal Essay—"Faith in the Baby"—is included in Salon.com's 2003 anthology, Life As We Know It, and another personal essay was nominated for a Pushcard Prize in 2004.

In addition to writing for publication, I also produce materials and manage communications projects for a small number of business and nonprofit organizations. These have included University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit), Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Dix & Eaton, Progressive Corp., Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cuyahoga Community College, and Chicago Title.

I also teach occasionally, from freshman composition and Creative Nonfiction at Cleveland State University to a poetry workshop inside the Cuyahoga County jail.

If you have questions or comments, please put them in the body of an email and send to kohlson@en.com

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