Selected Experience:

The Huffington Post:  February - April 2010

         Editorial Intern

• Shaped the editorial vision for a new religion section on Huffington Post
• Recruited and managed a diverse team of bloggers
• Wrote blogs on the importance of spirituality in art and writing
• Edited and rewrote submitted time sensitive blog entries
• Aggregated news stories and wrote news summaries and commentaries

Frances Goldin Literary Agency:  September 2009 – February 2010

         Agency Intern

• Participated in acquisition and editorial decisions
• Executed administrative and organizational office tasks
• Tracked book projects, revised manuscripts, and sub rights sales

Writers Workshop Press, Kolkata, India:  September 2008 - June 2009

         Publisher’s Assistant

·      Catalogued and digitized all Writers Workshop books for online sale

·      Reorganized, modernized, and streamlined sales and distribution

·      Made acquisition decisions and copyedited new books

·      Interviewed and surveyed authors around India about their publishing experience and intended audience

North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA:  Summer 2006                                                                       

 Editorial Intern

·      Finalized three books for publication as a project editor

·      Helped make acquisition decisions and attended sales meetings

·      Prepared publicity materials

SPACE (Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression, Rhode Island:  February 2004 - May 2007                   

Teacher & Program Coordinator

·      Facilitated weekly writing workshops in all security levels of the Rhode Island state prison

·      Coordinated the program in its second year of existence, 2004-2005

·      Designed, published and printed the biannual Zine of inmate’s writing and artwork

Summerbridge/Breakthrough Collaborative, Denver, CO & San Francisco, CA:  Summers 2001 - 2004

Teacher                                                                                    

·     Taught English, Literacy, Science, and English as a Second Language

·     Managed a team of new teachers as a department chair

Education:

Columbia Publishing Course, New York:  Summer, 2008

• Six week intensive on all aspects of the book and magazine publishing industries

Brown University, Providence, RI:   September 2003 – December 2008                                     

• B. A. with Honors in Literatures and Cultures in English
• 2007 Arlene Rome Ten Eyck Prize in Literary Theory for Honors Thesis on Thomas Pynchon
• 2005 Royce Fellowship to study American Prison Literature
• 2006 Preston-Gurney Prize for Cultural Criticism

Arnold Fellow, Kolkata, India:   September 2008 – June 2009

• Awarded 2008 Arnold Fellowship to study Indian Literature in English
• Wrote and published A Literal Journey in India: Encountering Writers Workshop, a book-length nonfiction narrative on Indian literature and culture

Skills:

• Talented and versatile writer; perceptive, careful and efficient editor
• Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Quark, Lexis Nexis, Quickbooks, BAITS & Custom Database Software, HTML/CSS, Movable Type & Blogging Platforms
• Languages: Functional Spanish, Bengali; beginning Hindi