EMPLOYMENT

Marie Claire, 5/07-present: editorial assistant
• Assisting the Executive Editor; writing feature-length essays, news stories, and book, film, and TV reviews; editing the monthly contributors and More Than a Pretty Face pages

Esquire, 3/07-5/07: freelance editorial assistant for Esquire’s Big Black Book
 • Locating expert sources and conducting interviews; writing several service-oriented pieces; prioritizing and managing several tasks while meeting strict deadlines

University of Pittsburgh, 8/04-3/07: teaching fellow
 • Teaching undergraduate composition and creative writing courses; designing syllabus focused on voice and structure of magazine and essay writing; participating in pedagogy panels on grading and creating assignments 

GQ, 1/04-3/07: editorial assistant to contributing editor Jeanne Marie Laskas
 • Locating potential sources and conducting interviews; finding facts and experts for articles, tape transcriptions

Ladies' Home Journal, 2/03-3/07: editorial assistant for monthly column
 • Interviewing and front-end research for “Animal Affairs” column and celebrity profiles; compiling clip files on Lexis-Nexis; brainstorming and pitching story ideas; tape transcriptions

Esquire, 5/06-8/06: editorial intern
 • Researching reader-question columns with fact-finding and fact checking; locating expert sources and conducting interviews; prioritizing and managing several tasks while meeting strict deadlines

EDUCATION

Masters of Fine Arts degree in writing, University of Pittsburgh, 2007, Magna Cum Laude

Bachelor of Arts degree in fiction writing, minor in art history, University of Pittsburgh, 2004                                                                                                                              

Study abroad coursework in London, 2003, and Paris, 2002