Hi, my name is Beth.
I’m a writer, editor and all-around wordsmith, as comfortable with 300-word news “flashes” as 2000-word narratives. I’m as curious about health, fitness, psychology, and nutrition as I am about money, business, parenting, design, and the arts. Although my first love was magazines, I’m nimble with all sorts of written expression—from blogs and brochures to websites and books.
A few of my fortes:
- Telling stories
- Deciphering complex health and medical information
- Packaging big concepts into reader-friendly chunks
- Writing around data and survey results
- Writing on the fly
My dream projects:
- Filing a story from space
- Blogging about the Paris flea market
- Writing a book about vanilla -- from Tahiti
This is how others would describe me {a real bio}.
A writer and editor in Charlotte, N.C., Beth Howard brings a wealth of experience, fresh ideas, and precise, engaging prose to every writing task, from women's health to historic preservation.
A graduate of the University of N.C. at Chapel Hill and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Beth worked in New York as an associate editor and in Los Angeles as the West Coast editor for Omni Magazine, covering science and the environment. She served as senior editor at SELF, New Woman (health), and My Generation magazines, and later returned to SELF as editor-at-large.
Beth has penned scores of articles for publications, including Good Housekeeping, Conceive, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Glamour, Prevention, Fitness, Ladies’ Home Journal, MORE, AARP: The Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and Woman’s Day, and has written health columns for Details, Bride’s, Shape, Babytalk, and Reader’s Digest. Her Web credits include LifetimeTV.com, MSNBC.com, and Viv. In 1998, she published the book, Mind Your Body: A Sexual Health and Wellness Guide for Women (St. Martin’s Press).
Beth is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), the Association of Health Care Journalists and the National Arts Club. She serves on the board of the newly formed news website, North Carolina Health News.
Beth lives with her husband, Mark, daughter, Zoe, cats, Zeus and Jazz, and Ranger, the resident guinea pig. Although a big fan, Beth is not related to her friend, Beth M. Howard, blogger, pie maker, and author of Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie.