Resume

EDUCATION 

January, 2010   Queens University of Charlotte  MFA creative writing

August, 1994 Syracuse University   M.S. advertising

June, 1993 Michigan State University  B.A. journalism and English

WORK EXPERIENCE

September 2021 to present, senior assistant director of communications

University of Chicago, Medicine and Biological Sciences/Chicago

October 2014 to present, founder

Big Bad Words, LLC

April 2012 to September 2020, editor and senior writer

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center

August 2005 to April 2012, senior writer

University of Michigan Health System

December 2002 to August 2005, program coordinator

University of Michigan, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies

August 1999 to December 2002, marketing manager

Compuware Corporation/Detroit

August 1997 to August 1999, account executive, Cadillac Seville

D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Advertising, Inc./Detroit

March 1996 to August 1997, account executive

TFA Communications, Inc./Chicago

September 1994 to March 1996, assistant account executive 

Ketchum Advertising/Chicago

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Association of Writers & Writers Programs

Women's Fiction Writers Association

National Association of Professional Women

Public Affairs & Marketing Network of National Cancer Centers (2012-2020)

CONFERENCES/CONTINUING EDUCATION

2021: Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, virtual, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, virtual, Women's Fiction Writer's Association retreat, Baltimore

2020: Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, San Antonio, Sewanee Writers Conference, virtual 

2019: Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Portland

2018: Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers' Conference, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Tampa

2017: Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Queens University of Charlotte Alumni Program, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Washington D.C.

2016: New York Summer Writers Institute, Skidmore University, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Los Angeles

2015: Public Affairs & Marketing Network of National Cancer Centers annual conference, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Queens University of Charlotte Alumni Program, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Minneapolis

2014: Tin House Writers Workshop, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Seattle 

2013: Sewanee Writers Conference, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Boston

2012: Public Affairs & Marketing Network of National Cancer Centers annual conference, Tinker Mountain Writers Workshop, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Ann Arbor Writers Conference, Chicago

2010: Bear River Writers Conference, Iowa Summer Writing Festival 

2009: Queens University of Charlotte Alumni Program, Ann Arbor Writers Conference 

2008: Backspace Writers Conference, Ann Arbor Writers Conference

2007: Midwest Literary Festival, Ann Arbor Writers Conference, Iowa Summer Writing Festival