Professional Experience
American/Irish writer, longterm expat in Paris, excellent French & German, perfectly at home in French language, literature, history, politics, French popular culture, familiar with all of western Europe.
Write on travel, social, political and literary life, with a human interest perspective. Popular blog (1 million + pageviews) since 2004.
Translator for a news website, translating articles from major foreign newspapers: Le Monde, Les Echos, La Stampa, Die Zeit, etc. Interested in politics, science, literature, history, travel.
Yale BA Chinese Studies, Sorbonne translation (French & German to English) MA in 2013.
Have lived in London, Munich, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Ireland. Good Italian and Spanish. Will travel.
Wrote chapters in various books: on education in France; French names; Paris travel; global population from a political perspective, etc.
Total Media Industry Experience
20 Years
Other Work History
Newsletter editor, Paris, 5 years; Saturday Review magazine, copy editor; Cousteau Society, wrote 25% of 800-p "Environmental Almanac"; freelance copy editor for major NYC publishers, inc. Knopf, Macmillan and McGraw-Hill; Foreign Policy Association, asst. editor and writer for "Great Decisions"; translator, blogger, editor, copy editor.
Technical Skills
Photo editing, basic website building, site design, analytics, SEO
Foreign Language Skills
French, German, Italian, Spanish. Also mid-level Chinese
Unions
Former member of Newspaper Guild.
Computer Skills
Up to date: Photoshop, Word, XML, Mac and PC, etc. Blogs since 2004. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.
Equipment
digital cameras, audio recorder
Work Permits & Visas
Legal resident, can work legally in USA, European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth
References
Available on request.
Awards
All four of my kids are friends with me on Facebook.
Blogs: more than 1 million pageviews.
Associations
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
