Jackson
Erica
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WRITING C.V.
Work History
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WRITING PROFILE
  • Skilled writer/editor
  • Short stories, fiction, poetry, essays, articles
  • Interview/reporting
  • Deadline-oriented
  • Organized
  • Superior spelling, vocabulary & grammar
  • Source development
SOFTWARE & TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Self-taught web designer
  • 35mm and digital photography
  • Macromedia Studio MX
  • Director 8
  • PhotoShop 7
  • Encode MP3s
  • HTML, SSI, CSS, forms, rollovers
  • Adobe Acrobat 5
  • FTP, telnet
  • Web-based content-management applications
    • Blogger
    • Greymatter

 

 

Writing
WRITING
Articles & Essays

The White Horse
I found it when I was lost my first day in New York in 1997. I return whenever I feel lost.

The Bone Room
An article I wrote about a man, his store and an albino Burmese python with conjugal visits.

Politically Incorrect: Just Plain Incorrect About the Internet
TV bully Bill Maher picks on the Internet, I pick back.

JT, Sex & Me
1 part teengirl hormones, 1 part nostalgia, 1 ex-Duran and a dash of sublimation...shaken AND stirred.

Fiction

No Fear of Heaven
[short story excerpt]
Two women, one nerd. Three's a crowd. Somebody's got to go.

His Mistress' Voice
[short story in development]
A busy man can't find time for his family, but can for a dominitrix.

Betty's Holiday
A trifle, perhaps.

Backstage Memories
[novel in development]
What happens when a troubled 15 year old girl befriends her favorite rock band?  Hint: she has self-esteem and so does not become a groupie.

Godmother of Haight Street
[short story]
She watches over the hippies and strays, looking for the Summer of Love a generation too late.

Poetry

Academy Awards

Coltrane Church (excerpt)

Communing With the Majority (excerpt)

Daughter of the Hegemon (excerpt)

Sepia Tones

Shattered City

Shrink As I Soar

Souffle Solo (excerpt)

Waverly Place (excerpt)

Windows in the Sidewalk

You Betray Yourself

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Record Company; New York, NY
Project Coordinator / Assistant to VP, Internet/New Media Operations - July 1999 to March 2000
  • Wrote news blurbs
  • Edited artist biographies
  • Heavy email correspondance with web designers, producers, etc.
EDUCATION & WRITING EXPERIENCE

Columbia University – B.A. expected 2005, Writing

  • Full scholarship through completion of B.A.
  • Program for Academic Leadership and Service
  • Fellow, Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
  • Volunteer Coordinator, Community Impact's College Road program
  • Volunteer work for School of General Studies, Student Council
  • Creative writing: poems, short stories and plays
  • GS Observer: poems and photography, Spring 2004

New York University - B.A. expected 2005, Political Science. GPA 3.5

  • School of Continuing and Professional Studies Scholarship - Spring 2003, 2003-04
  • Backer's Scholarship, Spring 2003
  • Courses in psychology and creative writing
  • Produced a 50 page portfolio of poetry and short stories

City College of San Francisco - 1996-98

  • Organized writer's groups for autobiography and short story courses
  • Courses in autobiography, short story and novel/playwriting

San Francisco State University - 1995-96

  • Coursework in Political Science and Journalism

California State University Fullerton, Women's Center - 1994

  • Major: Political Science
  • Minor: Women's Studies
  • Presenter - "Biracial I-Dentity: Biracial Women as a Bridge in Women's Studies"

Riverside Community College - A.A., 1992; coursework in graphic design, 2000

  • Dean's List
  • Arthur Knopf Journalism Scholarship, 1990
  • Student of Distinction, Journalism, 1990
  • Staff Writer, Features Editor, Editor-in-Chief
    • Viewpoints (official campus paper)
    • Alternatives (political science club newspaper)
      • Interviewed administrators, staff and students
      • Wrote and edited newspaper articles
      • Assigned beats and stories; supervised reporters
      • Coordinated newspaper production
      • Layout using PageMaker and other desktop publishing software
PRESS
POETRY & FICTION WRITING SAMPLES
Available upon request
 
Updated December 16, 2005