Experience
Writer / Editor at Amherst College Office of Communications, Amherst, Massachusetts (2006-present)
I continue to take on ever-greater challenges and responsibilities as a writer, editor, and administrator. I work with the rest of the Communications staff-- and with other college departments --to identify, produce, and publicize the latest news about the college and to communicate its values and successes to current and prospective members of its community around the world. My duties include:
Education
Lancaster University, Lancaster, England (2005-2006)
Honors
Writer / Editor at Amherst College Office of Communications, Amherst, Massachusetts (2006-present)
I continue to take on ever-greater challenges and responsibilities as a writer, editor, and administrator. I work with the rest of the Communications staff-- and with other college departments --to identify, produce, and publicize the latest news about the college and to communicate its values and successes to current and prospective members of its community around the world. My duties include:
- Writing feature-length and shorter articles for Amherst, the quarterly magazine of Amherst College
- Attending and writing about campus events for the college's website
- Interviewing faculty members and others to create profiles for the magazine and website
- Copyediting the magazine, intranet pages, news releases, event listings, posters, brochures, and other documents to conform to the college's house style (which is generally in accordance with Associated Press Style)
- Using Twitter and Facebook to draw attention to the latest buzzworthy news stories about the college
- Facilitating and documenting the sale of books about Amherst College
Education
Lancaster University, Lancaster, England (2005-2006)
- M.A. in Creative Writing
- Gave and received feedback on writing in regular workshops with classmates, online and in person
- Wrote and revised 30,000 words of a novella, as well as a 3,000-word essay of reflection upon the writing process
- Gave and received feedback on writing in regular workshops with classmates, online and in person
- B.A. in English, with concentration on creative prose writing
- Degree awarded with Distinction (G.P.A. in top 25 percent of class)
- Courses in beginning and advanced fiction writing, "Writing for the Theater," "Writers and the Writing Life," Romantic poetry, Shakespeare, historical fiction, and more
- Summer 2004 internship in Amherst College Office of Public Affairs, as editor of new editions of Student Handbook and First-Year Facebook
- Fiction editor and then Editor-in-Chief of The Amherst Review literary magazine
- Contributor of personal essays and humor writing to student publications Prism and The Meredith
- Copyeditor for Circus magazine
- Degree awarded with Distinction (G.P.A. in top 25 percent of class)
Honors
- Pushcart Prize nomination for "Jellybeans," a dramatic monologue published in Mindprints literary journal (2002)
- One-act comedy "A Date with Destiny" produced for Summer Playwrights Festival at Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center in Nyack, New York (2001)
- Grand Prize at New York State Theater Education Association Monologue Writing Contest for "Jellybeans" (2001)
