Madelyn Rosenberg

Freelance Writer, September 2000-present.

• Work has appeared in the American Journalism Review, The Washington Post, Baby Years, Parenting, the Boston Herald, Bluegrass Unlimited, Bon Appetit, CMJ, the Virginian Pilot, Progressive Engineering, Skirt, Virginia Business, American Artist, Watercolor Magazine, the Washington Post, N.C. State's Alumni Magazine, University of Richmond's Alumni Magazine, The Music Monitor, The Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Rough Guides Book of Playlists, Make the Most of Your Time on Earth (Rough Guides), Ladybug Magazine, eMusic, Other Voices, Literary Mama, How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel (forthcoming in May of 2008)

Features writer, November 1996-August 2000, Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va.

• Mined two beats -- music and Southern culture -- and wrote stories for newspaper with circulation of 100,000.
• Wrote essays and worked on group projects
• Served on paper's Internet steering committee and as a substitute editor

Acting features editor, March 1996-November 1996, Roanoke Times

• Supervised six reporters and one editorial assistant in production of daily features section
• Edited copy
• Assigned stories, generated ideas, proofed pages, evaluated employees

Assistant bureau editor, October 1994-March 1996, Roanoke Times

• Supervised nine reporters and two photographers
• Edited copy, assigned stories, wrote weekly column
• Created and maintained newspaper's first home page on the World Wide Web.

Higher Education reporter, January 1991-October 1994, Roanoke Times

• Covered Virginia's colleges and universities including Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, Washington and Lee, and Virginia Military Institute, which was then embroiled in a court battle in an effort to keep it's all-male status.
• Other newspaper beats at The Roanoke Times included the police beat and the Pulaski County beat.
• Summer internships were spent at The Greensboro News & Record and The Fayetteville Times, both in North Carolina.

Education

BA in English from N.C. State University, May 1989

MA in Creative Writing from Boston University, September 2002

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow, Creative Writing, Boston University, 2002

Adjunct Professor, Journalism, N.C. State University, 2003

Honors and Awards

Magazine Merit Honor Award, Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, presented March 2005, Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2004, Virginia Press Association awards for critical writing, home and leisure writing, and features series writing, 1998, 1999. Landmark Award for excellence in features writing, 1997, 1999.

Personal

The unworthy owner of a 1952 Gibson guitar, I'm interested in music, hiking and all things Southern. Volunteer activities have included Literacy Volunteers, theater renovation, teaching at the Roanoke Times' Regional Minority Journalism Workshop and assisting at The Christmas Store, a project that provides food and gifts for families living below the poverty line. I also spent a year leading a creative writing program for teens at the Salem, Va. YMCA.

Clips

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