Work
Selected ghostwriting, essays, and edited nonfiction.
Ghostwriting
Editing & Nonfiction
Speechwriting
Personal Essay
Storied Details: The Dohar Blanket
Courtney Barton Journal · Written for founder
The founder’s first-person story of finding her signature textile on a moped tour of Jaipur in 2010.
It all started with me on the back of a moped whizzing around the outskirts of Jaipur. This was 2010, my first trip to India, and I hadn’t set out to bring home what would later become my signature, best-selling textile, the dohar blanket.
Juicy Tidbits from “GWYNETH”
Pop Apologists Substack, August 2025 · Written for co-hosts
A 1,200-word take on Amy Odell’s unauthorized Gwyneth Paltrow biography, written in the hosts’ shared voice for their pop culture newsletter.
It’s no secret—we ride for Gwyneth. We’re enthralled with her star-studded upbringing and we’re emotionally invested in her love life.
Reimagining Public Funding to Reflect America’s Most Diverse City
Grantmakers in the Arts Reader, Winter 2021 · Editor
A case study by Necole S. Irvin and Deidre Thomas on how Houston rebuilt its arts grant system.
City of Houston Civic Art Program Annual Report, 2021
Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs · Editor
A 37-page annual report and equity review, shaped from staff writing and program data into one readable narrative.
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen Discusses Human Rights at the Rothko Chapel
CultureMap Houston, October 2011 · Reporter
Coverage of Sen’s 40th-anniversary lecture at the Rothko Chapel and the lively Q&A that followed.
Treatment Engagement Using Motivational Interviewing for Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Mothers with Postpartum Depression
Clinical Social Work Journal, 2013 · Co-author with McClain Sampson and Luis H. Zayas
Peer-reviewed research on keeping new mothers in treatment for postpartum depression.
Nearly 20 years of speeches, remarks, and bylined writing for executives, founders, and public figures.
Confidential client work; contact for more information.
The Maine Thing
Errand Friend (Substack), November 2025
A personal essay on a career shift and getting your time back.
Back in August, my full-time job morphed into a contract gig. The change wasn’t framed as a layoff, but practically speaking, it’s functioned like one. It was only after the initial shock wore off that I was able to settle into one momentous fact: my time was my own again.
Summer Reading: 2 of 2
Errand Friend (Substack), July 2026
On Maggie O’Farrell’s Land and why her books earn a reader’s trust.