“To leave the messiness of real life in everything and then deal with it, no matter how many ways we tell one story.”

—Mimi Schartz

NYT-Reviewed Author & Strategic Communications Leader | Trauma-Informed Storyteller | Healthcare & Equity Advocate

My career bridges two worlds: literature and healthcare communications. As an author, my memoir Devout has been recognized by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, and the LA Review of Books. As a strategist, I’ve partnered for ten years with organizations, universities, and nonprofits to craft messaging that advances equity and access. In every setting, I bring a trauma-informed, people-centered approach.

→ ORGANIZATIONS: Strategic communications, crisis management, stakeholder engagement, content strategy

→ WRITERS: Developmental editing, manuscript consultation, trauma-informed storytelling

Based in Durham, NC | Available for full-time roles and freelance projects

If readers feel seen by this book and thus saved from the stigma they, like Gazmarian, might have carried like a cross, that’s no small accomplishment.”

—Carlene Bauer, The New York Times

Despite Gazmarian’s exploration of and consequent qualms about certain facets of the church, her memoir reads as a testimonial to the enduring power of faith—a diarist’s pursuit of unanswerable yet no less vital questions: What does it mean to be “good” in this world? Where do we belong within it?

—Courtney Tenz, Los Angeles Review of Books

“A righteously angry debut, a testimony that will speak to both God-fearing and secular readers, any of us in search for a love not conditioned on obedience.”

—Oprah Daily