Bonnie Darves is an independent writer, editor and communications consultant based in Portland, Oregon. Over the past 19 years, she has worked in the newspaper, magazine and corporate communications industries for a wide variety of publications and clients. She began her career in magazine journalism as a copy editor for Reader's Digest magazine in 1980, and has since worked as associate editor, business editor, and managing editor for several newspapers and magazines.
Since 1985, Darves has operated an independent writing and editing business, serving clients in industries ranging from health care, practice management, and finance to high technology, tourism, and higher education. In the health care sector, her clients have included USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles Children's Hospital, Providence Health System, Glaxo Wellcome, American Medical Response and several foundations and professional associations. Darves was formerly editor of the Northwest?s leading medical business newspaper, The Scribe, and currently serves as editor of The IPA Association of America's bi-monthly magazine, TIPS on Managed Care. Her articles have appeared in numerous medical and general interest publications, including Modern Physician, Physician's Practice Digest, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Oregonian, Toronto Globe and Mail, Excursions, and Portland Life & Business, among others.
Darves received her BA in Literature from the University of San Francisco and during her undergraduate studies spent two years studying 18th- and 20th-century literature at St. Anne's College in Oxford, England. She has completed post-graduate studies in literature and creative writing at McGill University in Montreal, the University of California at Los Angeles and the Northwest Writers Institute in Portland, Oregon.