Academic Background

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bachelor of Arts in English with a focus on Creative Writing, Journalism, 1995; Dean’s List 1994, 1995; Independent Study in Creative Writing with Doris Betts, 1995

Current Freelance

• Columnist for Knights of the Dinner Table magazine
• Producer and host for I Should Be Writing podcast. Winner of Podcast Peer Award (’07), Parsec Award (’07) and Hub Magazine’s Best Podcast of ’08 and ’09.
• Editor in Chief at Escape Pod magazine.
• Host of Angry Robot Books podcast.

Print Books

• Tricks of the Podcasting Masters (co-author) – #3 in Amazon.com’s Best of 2006 list in the Reference category
• Playing For Keeps – Winner of 2008 Parsec Award for Best Novel
• Nanovor: Hacked!

Employment

• Open Media Evangelist, Lulu.TV / Gnack
  Jan 2007-Dec 2007
  Researched and blogged about trends and news regarding open media. Produced, wrote for and starred in the award-nominated video podcast This Day in Alternate History. Managed large community of content producers on Lulu.tv.
• Internet Manager, Red Storm Entertainment
  Aug 1997-March 2001
  Managed content for large company website, including online privacy policy, website content, forum guidelines and community management. Planned and purchased online ad campaigns.
• Online Developer, Ventana Communications
  March 1996-August 1997
  Edited and designed web pages, edited images for book sites.

Skills

Website copy creation, HTML, WordPress, Joomla, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Scrivener, Audacity, Final Cut, Amadeus Pro, iMovie, Voodoo Pad, Wiki, PHPBB.

Previous Experience

Contract writer for role-playing games

White Wolf Publishing:

Dark Ages: Mage (20K words)

Dead Magic II (20K words)

EverQuest Game Master’s Guide (7K words)

Warcraft the Role-playing Game (14K words)

Warcraft the RPG: Alliance and Horde Compendium (20K words)

Warcraft the RPG: Lands of Conflict (30K words)

Aspect Book: Earth (33K words)

Cult of Illuminated (30K words)

World of Warcraft (34K words)

Vampire Bloodlines: The Legendary (10K words)

World of Warcraft: More Magic and Mayhem (30K words)

World of Warcraft: The Alliance Player’s Guide (18K words)

Mage: Legacies: The Sublime (7K words)

Hogshead Publishing:

Fright Night: Haunted School, Stand-alone adventure

Zeitgeist Publishing:

Castle Blackmoor (4K words)

Freelance magazine writer

SuicideGirls.com June ’07-June ’08

PC Gamer (CD), March 2002

Computer Games, July 2005

InQuest (IQ Gamer), July 2005 – April 2007

Anime Insider, September – December 2005, July 2006-Jan 2007

Knights of the Dinner Table, September 2005-present

Scrye, April 2006 – present

Games Quarterly Magazine, June 2006-July 2007

Comics and Games Retailer Magazine, July 2006

SciFi Magazine, December 2006

Other writing projects and experience

• Blogger for Tor.com
• Host/Producer for Tor.com Story Podcast
• Producer and host for Geek Fu Action Grip podcast. and Geek Fu Morning Show (same URL), Dec 2004-2008
• Co-editor and host for Pseudopod, the horror podcast magazine. Aug 2006-Jun 2007
• Weekly audio essayist for Michael and Evo’s Wingin’ It podcast.
• Columnist for Grumble Magazine as “Sailor Mur.”
• Writer for NIIT textbooks, chapter on storyboarding in computer games.
• Columnist and game reviewer for WomenGamers.com as “Sailor Mur.”
• Game reviewer for IGN.com, 2002.
• Reporter for Daily Tar Heel (sports and campus beat; UNC-Chapel Hill) and The Mountain Times (Boone, NC), 1991-1994.

Writing samples and references available upon request.