I’m delighted to announce that my book, Communicating Across Careers: Writing Transfer and the Experiences that Shape a Professional Life, is being published by Routledge’s series in conjunction with the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). It will be available in September of 2026.

About the book:

Communicating Across Careers offers vital new insights about how professionals develop as writers across roles, industries, identities, and experiences. Long-form, narrative-inquiry-based interviews with 45 professionals as varied as a Marine-turned-Pastor, a Television Producer-turned-School Librarian, and a Record Label Manager-turned-Realtor, offer rich stories of shifting identities, surprising challenges, and intriguing victories in writing development. Viewed through a transdisciplinary lens, these interviews provide insights into the distinct experience of writerly development across professions, named here as Dynamic Workplace Writing Transfer. These stories reveal how complex factors ranging from the personal to the academic to social to the environmental tangle and entwine to shape a professional life. Using career change as a valuable, representative professional moment, the chapters in this book illuminate how central writing is to all of our working lives, but also how very connected who we are as people is to who we are as writers.

I would love to talk about these findings with you and your colleagues or your students. If you’d like to schedule something, please reach out!

And if you have any connection to an academic library, I’d ask (beg?) you to suggest to them that it would be a good addition to their collection!