Bio
Growing
up, Penelope always wanted to be and do a million different things. She
wanted to be a chef, an artist, architect, dancer, writer, mathematician,
chemist, fashion designer. She wanted to speak foreign languages, program
computers, build imaginative spaces, and travel all over the world.
Her biggest challenge was the idea of having to choose just one future for herself. Luckily she didn't have to. At Middlebury College she double majored in English/Creative Writing & Studio Art. She minored in French and spent a semester abroad in Paris. She joined the cooking club, the modern dance group and learned improvisation and the subtleties of sound and movement. She learned the importance of intention and the blessing of organic process.
After college Penelope nixed her plans to live in New York City and instead moved to Arles, France, where she spent the next five months as an au pair and cooking school assistant/translator. These five months represent some of the most influential moments of her life.
When she returned to Vermont in 2003, Penelope began work as a copywriter for April Cornell, an international designer and manufacturer of apparel and home linens. She spent three years at April Cornell-writing, editing, designing, photo styling, e-mail marketing-and in the process landed unintentionally in the midst of a world that was almost impossibly perfect for her: the world of web content. For it is there, on the web, that she can write, design, build, code, and travel (virtually) to her heart's pleasure.
Now a Web Producer and Writer for EatingWell Media Group in Charlotte, Vermont, Penelope works primarily producing online content (and taste-testing new recipes!) for www.eatingwell.com and partners.
Outside of work, she enjoys blogging, cooking, gardening, singing, drawing, running, snowboarding, working on her web site, and so much more. She lives in Burlington, Vermont with her beau Colin and their two fabulous cats, Au Lait and Suki.