Fic­tion

Videos

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Day of the Dead

–doc­u­men­tary short, 2010

• Direc­tor, Editor

A Pound of Debt: Insur­ance and the Arts

–Doc­u­men­tary short, 2009.

• Direc­tor, Editor.
• Offi­cial Selec­tion, 2009 Side­walk Mov­ing Pic­ture Festival.

Expe­ri­ence

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Free­lance Writer

–2011 — Present

• Write and pro­duce con­tent for a vari­ety of online and print publications.
• “The Best Ways to Put Mois­ture into African Amer­i­can Hair” — Tyra Banks’ TypeF.com
• “From Alabama to India, Female Folk Artists Work to Live” — Weld for Birmingham
• “A Home Office That Works” — Birm­ing­ham Magazine
• “Travel Like an Insider” — Birm­ing­ham Magazine

 

Writer, Edi­tor, Videographer

–Uni­ver­sity of Alabama at Birm­ing­ham, Birm­ing­ham, Ala., 2009 — 2011

• Cre­ated and updated the SUSME blog with both copy and video.
• Shot and edited doc­u­men­tary video using Final Cut Pro for the Les­son Study Pro­gram at the UAB School of Education.
• Sam­ples:
• What is Les­son Study?
• Car­bo­hy­drates Sci­ence Lesson

Adjunct Instruc­tor

–Vir­ginia Col­lege, Birm­ing­ham, Ala., 2010

• Planned and imple­mented cur­ricu­lum and edu­ca­tional pro­grams for stu­dents in Eng­lish Com­po­si­tion I and II classes.
• Eval­u­ated, designed, and imple­mented test­ing, teach­ing, and class­room man­age­ment methods.
• Gath­ered data, com­piled infor­ma­tion, and pre­pared reports.

Edi­to­r­ial Assistant

–Lip­stick, Birm­ing­ham, Ala., 2007 to 2009.  Met­ro­pol­i­tan women’s mag­a­zine pub­lished by The Birm­ing­ham News.

• Planned, styled, and super­vised photo shoots.
• Han­dled pub­lic rela­tions and event planning.
• Over­saw billing and budget.
• Super­vised edi­to­r­ial intern.
• Sold adver­tis­ing.
• Wrote and edited print and Web con­tent for a met­ro­pol­i­tan monthly women’s mag­a­zine, includ­ing nutri­tion, health, beauty and fash­ion, essays, pro­files, movie reviews, and events calendar.
• Foot­ball Primer
• Art for the People
• Cheap Trick
• Choco­late Beauty

Edi­to­r­ial Intern

–Birm­ing­ham Mag­a­zine, Birm­ing­ham, Ala.,  2005.  Met­ro­pol­i­tan magazine.

• Assisted with edi­to­r­ial duties for a monthly city magazine.
• Planned, wrote, and copy edited content.
• Assisted with plan­ning and styling photo shoots.

Edu­ca­tion

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M. A., Eng­lish, Uni­ver­sity of Alabama at Birm­ing­ham, 2010.

• Con­cen­tra­tion in cre­ative writ­ing. Course­work in film-making and film analysis.

B.A., Eng­lish & Psy­chol­ogy, Auburn Uni­ver­sity, Auburn, Ala., 2005.

Tech­ni­cal Skills

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• Final Cut Pro
• Pho­to­shop
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Out­look
• Pow­er­Point
• Movie Magic Screenwriter
• Sigil
• Cal­i­bre

 

Hon­ors and Memberships

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All Hands On: THE2NDHAND after 10. Sev­eral works of short fic­tion cho­sen for pub­li­ca­tion in this best-of collection.

 

“The Last Parade,” Hon­or­able Men­tion, 2010 New South­erner Short Fic­tion Competition

 

A Pound of Debt: Insur­ance and the Arts, Offi­cial Selec­tion, 2009 Side­walk Mov­ing Pic­ture Festival

 

“Leav­ing Batesville,” Best Short Story, THE2NDHAND Lit­er­ary Broad­sheet 2008 Short Fic­tion Competition

 

“318,” Best Short Story, THE2NDHAND Lit­er­ary Broad­sheet 2007 Short Fic­tion Competition

 

Final­ist, 2008 and 2007 SideWrite Screen­writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tions, Side­walk Mov­ing Pic­ture Festival

 

Inside the Lines, Semi-Finalist, 2007 Page Inter­na­tional Screen­writ­ing Awards, Feature-length Division.

 

Mem­ber, Soci­ety of Children’s Book Writ­ers and Illustrators

 

Mem­ber, Sigma Tau Delta, Inter­na­tional Eng­lish Honor Society

 

Junior Board Mem­ber, Alabama Human­i­ties Foundation