•	20+ years of publishing and marketing experience: research, writing, editing, publishing, content strategy, content creation, marketing, social media messaging, brand messaging, paid  and organic media messaging,  internal and external communications, and SEO.
•	Experience managing freelance writers and copy, assigning articles, designing layouts, and orchestrating marketing campaigns.  
•	Beats have included education, politics, tech, business, youth trends, crime and up to eight municipalities at a time.
•      Extensive experience working on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. I was responsible for the content strategy and the copywriting for Meta's new Business Equity (DEI) page.
•      Experience with podcast production and editing, video production and editing and photography, and photo editing.
•      I was responsible for creating the SEO guidelines and best practices used at Audible. Additionally, I was part of a team that did keyword research and rewrote product descriptions to be SEO optimized for 500 books.
•      I am skilled in prompt engineering. I know how to design, develop, and refine AI text prompts, how to optimize prompt performance, and how to improve the AI prompt generation process for various applications. I can also create, communicate, and teach best practices for using AI.

Heather Kays

I set a goal to have twice as many releases in 2026 as I did in 2025.
At the time, it felt reasonable — two chapbooks or books.

I hit that goal before 2026 began.

I have two chapbooks coming out this year through two different small/independent presses.

This genuinely feels like a dream come true. ❤️


#WritingCommunity #Poetry #IndiePublishing #SmallPress #CreativeGoals

Marketing Manager & Literary Manager ✨💖 | Author of Myths in the Feed (sold out 6x) | Crying Heart Press Best-Selling Author | 2x Pushcart Nominee | I make strategy feel like storytelling — and vice versa.

On Tuesday, my new book 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑠 is released.

It’s a collection about generational weight — what we absorb, what we’re expected to hold, and the decision to stop carrying what was never ours to begin with.

This project sits at the intersection of storytelling and responsibility: how honesty becomes a form of change in families, in work, and in the way we show up for the people around us.

#Storytelling #CreativeWork #BreakingCycles #PoetryCommunity

This is a period of transition and growth for me both personally and professionally. It is equal parts exciting and terrifying.

How do you stay grounded and avoid feeling overwhelmed when everything around you is changing? I’d love to hear your strategies.

#PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #ChangeManagement #Mindfulness #GrowthMindset #Resilience

There was always an expectation of secrecy when I was a child. I was made responsible for keeping the family skeletons in the closet. I was forced to hide guilt, shame, pain, trauma—my own thoughts and feelings—and the truth.

In this collection of poetry, I lay that truth bare in short, hybrid poems—part poetry, part prose—exploring what it means to reclaim a voice that was once silenced.

Today is release day for my latest collection, 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑠. Link in the comments. 💖 

#WritingCommunity #Poetry #AuthorsOfLinkedIn #CreativeWork #Storytelling #BookLaunch #PublishingLife

Lately I’ve been thinking about how difficult it is to balance professional responsibilities with being a poet, writer, and artist.

Some days, it feels like being pulled in different directions—my priorities and passions competing for the same limited hours.

For those of you who live in both worlds, how do you find the balance and keep showing up for both?

#CreativesInBusiness #WorkLifeBalance #WritingLife

You get the most actionable audience building tips on LinkedIn | Currently helping 4 founders reduce CAC by turning their LinkedIn brand into a 24/7 salesperson.

In 2020, I left a miserable HR job. No savings, no backup plan. Just fear.

My dad was furious. 

Understandably, I had just walked away from what so many considered a golden opportunity.

I felt like a failure. 

But deep down, I knew I had to make a change. Because staying meant being stuck in a life and career I had no passion for. I was also trapped in:

🛑 A relationship I thought would last forever
🛑 The house I had lived in for 25 years
🛑 And Sundays spent with my mom’s delicious rice and chicken stew

It seemed too comfortable for my growth.

So, I took the risk. Learned social media management and quit my job.

With no formal training, I hustled day and night, looking for internship opportunities. After months of rejection, a marketing and brand manager for an Edtech company took a chance on me.

It wasn’t easy. But that first step opened doors I never imagined.

Since then, I’ve worked with some of the biggest tech brands across Africa and beyond. Today, I manage social media for a New York-based startup, earning 100x more than I did back then.

In my current role, I’ve:

1. Helped monetize our YouTube channel
2. Created the company’s top three viral posts
3. Increased brand presence on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Even though my dad still thinks I made a mistake, I'm having the time of my life observing startups (especially in Africa) from my Marketing POV.

Darius Ogenyi

Why Paystack restructured into a holding company (The Stack Group HQ)

Content @Tech Safari | Making sense of the global startup ecosystem, starting with Africa.

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