Education:
- Undergraduate:
- BA, Secondary English Education and Creative Writing
- Minor, Spanish
- Purdue University
Teaching and Editing Experience: 11 Years
- Originally from Ohio, Chazz graduated from Purdue in 2010 as the Outstanding Senior in the Department of English. After completing her student teaching, she decided to pursue public health education and outreach. She worked as a patient health educator and fitness instructor, where she combined her loves for health, education, and language and received the Leonard Doak Memorial Scholarship for health literacy. She is currently working as an editor and working toward a graduate degree in nutrition science. When she’s not working, she loves to run, write (poetry), cook, and hike in the mountains of Colorado, where she lives with her three-legged Golden Retriever, Tripod.
Publications:
- Two Plus Four Equals One: Celebrating the Partnership of People with Disabilities and Their Service Dogs
- Contributing Writer and Secondary Editor
- The Importance of the Cellular Stress Response in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes; Cell Stress and Chaperones
Favorite Periodicals:
- The Onion
- The New York Times
- Good Medicine Magazine
Favorite Books:
- Eat Pray Love — Elizabeth Gilbert
- Conversations with God — Neale Donald Walsch
- The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven — Sherman Alexie
- Fear of Flying — Erica Jong
- Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides
- God of the Rodeo — Daniel Bergner
- Eat to Live — Dr. Joel Fuhrman
- Harry Potter — J.K. Rowling
Favorite Authors and Poets:
- Sherman Alexie
- Erica Jong
- Tom Robbins
- Louise Erdrich
- Rumi
- Louise Gl’ck
- Tyler Knott Gregson
