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EXPERIENCE8/2017-present
FREELANCE WRITER & EDITOR
Clients include Serious Eats, New York magazine, Vice,
FiveThirtyEight, InStyle, OZY, and Tinder.
1/2017 -11/2018
COCOPY EDITOR, MIC
Copyedited and fact-checked news posts and originally
reported features for news and politics, food and travel, work
and money, and pop culture.
2013-2017
SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR, REFINERY29
Conceptualized, assigned, and edited long-Conceptualized, assigned, and edited long-form features. Led
editing workshops. Promoted from copy editor.
2007-2011
COPY EDITOR, POPSUGAR
Copyedited celebrity and entertainment news as well as
beauty, travel , food, and home features under tight
deadlines.
2003 - 20062003 - 2006
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION EDITOR, PENGUIN BOOKS
Coordinated book cover copy for over 100 titles per year.
Wrote and edited jacket copy. Copyedited and proofread
manuscripts for fiction and nonfiction titles. Promoted from
managing editorial assistant.
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SKILLS Copyediting
Fact-checking
Line editing
Headline writing
Subject line writing
Content manaContent management systems
Photoshop
ABOUTSenior-level writer and editor who’s created top-performing
features that are elevated, comment-provoking,
and eminently readable. Fluent in all things lifestyle..
EDUCATIONBachelor of ArtsMarist College
English
Editing CertificateUniversity of California, Berkeley
Summer Publishing InstituteSummer Publishing InstituteNew York University
COLLEEN BARRETTFeatures Writer & Editor