About Nan

Nan Kuhlman is an author, copywriter, and technical writer who lives in Los Angeles but still thinks of rural northwest Ohio as home. Her nonfiction book Nontraditional: Life Lessons from a Community College tells of her time spent as an adjunct writing professor at a small Ohio community college and braids the stories of her nontraditional students with her own nontraditional start in higher education. The lesson of Nontraditional is about life’s circuitous nature and how the indirect way may be the best route to get where you need to go.

Nan currently works as a technical writer in Los Angeles, but because her freelancing career has spanned more than two decades, she can’t break her streak and continues copywriting in her free time. Most of her publications have appeared in the last decade as she began regularly contributing to two local advertiser-supported magazines, Living Today and Boomers Today, in Defiance, Ohio, from 2008-2015, and from there, her writing grew to encompass a blog about Christian spirituality (TrinityandHumanity.com) from 2011 until 2016. More recent copywriting efforts have included marketing bios for physicians, copy for websites, and marketing copy for new products and services.

Because Nan loves to learn, her writing has continued its eclectic nature. You’ll find scholarly publications like the University of California, Davis Writing on the Edge and Chapman University’s Anastamos Interdisciplinary Journal, medical and health writing for Doctorpedia and its related domains, and even parenting articles on Parent.com. Nan also writes short video scripts, sermon outlines, and small group discussion questions for Grace Communion International, and she is the editor of the small, local magazine Monrovia Living.

Nan grew up in rural Ohio and played in old barns with her two younger brothers, a dog or two, some chickens, and a bunch of outdoor cats. She now lives in the greater Los Angeles area with her husband and three dogs.