Allison Kornet

Winchester, MA USA
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Professional Experience

An editor never rests: approving an epidural during childbirth, I saw a grammar error on the consent form. Extended maternity leave now means new freelance availability. I've edited columns, books, manuals; I've also written for SAIL, Psych Today, New Woman, Women's Health. I can deliver.

Expertise

Copy Editor
15 Years
Writer
15 Years
Editor
8 Years

Specialty

Education
16 Years
Books & Literature
16 Years
Other, Specify
16 Years

Industries


Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
7 Years
Academia Teaching
11 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
3 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

13 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

SELF Magazine (1-2)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (3-5), Monster Worldwide (1-2), Pearson Publishing Curriculum Group (1-2), Digitas, Inc. (1-2)

Other Work History

Production editor at SAIL Magazine; part-time editor of the Opinion/Editorial pages at The Boston Herald; part-time copy desk editor at The Washington Times; arts feature writer for MIT's Tech Talk.

Foreign Language Skills

French, Latin

Computer Skills

Word, Excel, Quark Express, Quark Copydesk

Equipment

Personal computer (iBook G4), digital camera (Canon Rebel), EPSON Artisan printer, iphone.

References

On request

Awards

ASME award nomination (1996); Washington Post All-Met Coach of the Year (2001); Women's Sports Foundation Private School Coach of the Year (2002); teacher of many Scholastic Arts and Writing national gold medalists

Showcase

Reporting on the Arts

Profile of an artist-in-residence
Concert preview
Interview of featured inventor at MIT Museum

Magazine Features

Deception is rampant—and sometimes we tell the biggest lies to those we love most.
Liveaboard sailing school in the Grenadines teaches a sailor's daughter how much she knows— and doesn't.

Personal Essay

A girl contemplates her childhood friend's choice of fiance... at a Chippendales show.