MAY I DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION
I am a writer and editor with more than a dozen years' experience with print publications and new media in New York, Los Angeles, and Moscow.

MY CREDENTIALS: NEW MEDIA
I was most recently Web Editor at Audible Inc., an Internet start-up undertaking online delivery of audiobooks, where I was primarily responsible for the site's front-end design and execution (1997). <> Prior to that, I was a writer-editor at Crossover Technologies, the online-games developer, where I created news-based content for two political-simulation games, President '96 and Reinventing America (1996-97). <> I was also a contributing writer to the Prodigy webzine Stim (1996-97).

MY CREDENTIALS: OLD MEDIA
I worked on the news desk of The Moscow Times, an English-language daily in Russia where I edited and fit stories and wrote headlines and captions (1995). <> Before that, I was a freelance copy editor and sometime contributor to Los Angeles Magazine (1992-94) and a reporter for Adweek/West (1992). <> Upon first arriving in L.A., I worked several months as a freelance editor-in-chief for Infiniti Perspectives, a proposed upscale general-interest quarterly for Infiniti car owners (1991-92). <> My freelance work in New York includes copy editing and proofreading at American Health, Egg, GQ, McCalls, Rolling Stone, Skiing, Skiing Trade News and Travel Holiday (1990-91).

PROOF THAT I CAN WRITE
As a news assistant in The Wall Street Journal's New York Bureau, I wrote numerous news and feature stories, one of which was included in the best-of anthology mentioned below (1988-90). <> During college, I worked on The Columbia University Record, a weekly newspaper for the school's faculty and staff, before moving on to Columbia Magazine, the alumni monthly (1984-88).

MORE PROOF THAT I CAN WRITE (publications)
I wrote several entries for The People's Almanac Presents the Twentieth Century: The Definitive Compendium of Astonishing Events, Amazing People, and Strange-But-True Facts (Little Brown, 1995). <> My article on educational movies appears in Dressing for Dinner in the Naked City and Other Stories from the Wall Street Journal's Middle Column (Hyperion, 1994). <> I co-wrote, with Beth Heinsohn, Know Your Government: The Department of Defense (Chelsea House, 1990).

WHERE I WENT TO COLLEGE
Columbia University. B.A., 1988. I majored in history, minored in political science, and took courses in the Graduate School of Journalism.

OTHER STUFF ABOUT ME
Language skills: survival-level Russian and French. Interests include: history, fiction, travel, computers, photography, and 20th-century design.