Copywriting
Copyediting
Creative writing
Writing instruction
Research & fact checking
Editorial project management
Organizational training
Team building

Adobe Creative Suite
Office 365
Apple/Mac
G Suite
Asana
Monday.com

CONTENT WRITER & EDITOR (June 2021–present)
WHITE64 - current role

• Develop creative campaign copy, production copy, social posts, and emails for a variety of clients

• QA web projects

• Develop concepts and create supporting copy assets for brand activations

• Clients industries: finance, travel, medical, defense

WHITE64, PenFed Credit Union Account Team - prior role

• Strategize, assign, copyedit, and approve final content for award-winning financial literacy blog: The Learning Center

• Write email marketing campaigns for credit cards, deposits, and auto products

• Collaborate with writers, designers, and UX to create articles, videos, and infographics

• Drive engagement with data-based SEO strategy and market research

• Create and co-edit comprehensive style manual

FREELANCE WRITER & EDITOR (2020-PRESENT)
BESPOKE Real Estate

• Wrote and edited luxury property listings up to 1200 words according to house style for online listings, property brochures, and social media posts

• Worked closely with marketing leads and project managers to interpret spec sheets, brochure outlines, surveys, and floorplans

• Recruited and trained new writers

Apex CoVantage

• Met strict deadlines to deliver fully copyedited academic book manuscripts up to 500 pages in length

• Prepared industry standard style sheets and copyediting memos

• Topics included world politics, medieval history, and film theory

Grim Vision Podcast

• Copyedited short fiction manuscripts up to 5,000 words, providing both technical and substantive edits

SENIOR COPYWRITER/COPY MANAGER (2018–2020)
NSTO (Need Supply Co. & Totokaelo)

• Managed daily copy operations for a team of 5 writers (4 direct reports) in a fast-paced, high-volume e-commerce photo studio

• Copyedited all publishable material (interviews, marketing copy, long-form editorial copy, product descriptions, and internal comm.) for two luxury fashion brands, upholding brand standards

• Collaborated with developers, photographers, graphic designers, customer experience specialists, stylists, and ops on high-level initiatives

• Wrote product descriptions, feature articles, and editorial copy

Process Improvements

Standardized editorial submissions; adjusted daily methods to keep up with changing production goals; and kick-started an import-based data entry model, decreasing overall production time by 50%.

BLACKBIRD: AN ONLINE JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS (2012–2015)
Lead Copyeditor & Associate Editor Emerita (2014–2015)

• Copyedited fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, web copy, art captions

• Revised copyediting manual and edited production training manual

• Trained 5–7 copyeditors in house style, procedures, bio-editing, fact-checking

Lead Associate Editor (Managing Editor) (2013–2014)

• Supervised editorial staff of 10 editors and 16–18 interns across four divisions (copyediting, web development, photography, and audio)

• Copyedited content and made substantive edits

• Reviewed submissions and led weekly content and production meetings

• Composed weekly social media posts and wrote web copy

• Maintained working relationships with industry professionals

• Collaborated with editorial staff on special projects

• Recorded reading events using professional sound recording equipment

• Revised, prepared, and distributed contracts

• Maintained content database in Microsoft Access

• Managed booth at the annual AWP conference

• Trained the 2014–2015 lead associate editor

Lead Pagebuilder (2012–2013)

• Co-supervised four interns building webpages using Dreamweaver

• Collaborated on decisions about content formatting

• Conceived, designed, and wrote employee training manual

MANAGING EDITOR (2010–2012)
Copper Nickel, University of Colorado Denver

• Managed all aspects of production, circulation, and publication

• Co-wrote grant proposals, all of which won the full amount requested

• Communicated with contributors, staff, and subscribers

• Typeset issues using Adobe InDesign

• Managed the production checklist, prepared contracts and proofs

• Managed daily cash flow

• Managed subscriber database in FileMaker Pro

• Designed event promotion posters

ADJUNCT WRITING INSTRUCTOR (2014–2021)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA

• Honors 295: The Reading and Writing of Fiction & Poetry

• Honors 250: Expository Writing

• English 304: Persuasive Writing/Advanced Writing

• English 305: Writing Poetry

• Engl 391: Topics—Documentary Poetics

• Sculpture 692: Independent Study (Poetics of Structure: Poetry and Sculpture)

Virginia State University, Petersburg VA

• English 110: Composition I

CREATIVE WRITING INSTRUCTOR, SUMMER ARTVENTURE (2015–2017)
Visual Arts Center, Richmond VA

I developed a week-long writing clinic for youth ages 10–14. Activities included daily freewrites, open discussions about literature and writing practice, and visits to the Visual Arts Center gallery.

MFA in Creative Writing

Virginia Commonwealth University

• Recruitment Fellowship

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship

BA in Creative Writing

University of Colorado Denver

• Summa Cum Laude

“From The Yellow Front Grocery Co.,” Copper Nickel, 2021

“Notes (In Retrograde),” RHINO, 2021

“I’m with the Brand,” NeedSupply.com, October 2019

“Liberty/Liberty,” Cleaver, December 2018

“Review: The Wilderness by Sandra Lim,” Blackbird, November 2015

“Testimony of Distance,” The Paris-American, February 2015

“Back to Life,” diode, v7n3, Fall 2014

“knob & tube,” “green light after green,” The Journal, 38.4, Fall 2014

“there is a hell you love,” PANK, 9.7, July 2014

“Australis Incognita,” Hidden City Quarterly, Spring 2014

“If I Am Stalemate,” The Pinch, 34.1, Spring 2014

“Sidewalk Artist,” Style Weekly, Richmond, VA, November 5, 2013

“No Comparable Warmth,” Blackbird, v12n1, Spring 2013

“resisdance” Southern Indiana Review (online, 2013)

“Elegy (for Jake Adam York)" Evening Will Come, 2013

“Journal of Responses,” Blackbird, V11n1, 2012

“How It’s Measured,” Moving Words Project (broadside), Arlington, VA, April-September, 2011

“Observations on the Eastbound 15,” Copper Nickel, Issue 13, January 2010