Gillian, Author Coach

Author Coach, Writer, and Editor

Gillian Culff

Freelance writer, editor and creative writing teacher. Published in national and local publications. Write personal profiles for corporate marketing, edit websites end-to-end, coach writers and speakers.

Writer and Author Coach

Sarah Lawrence College

Contribute articles to Sarah Lawrence magazine, including tributes to former faculty members who have retired and original concept series of "Where They Live" articles evoking the locales of alumnae/i living in far-flung places, based on research and interviews. Support the Communications and Alumnae/I Relations offices by researching and writing annual mini-bios and citations for achievement and service to be framed, read aloud and presented to recipients at reunion; develop and edit marketing content. Edited interdisciplinary curriculum about Westchester County rivers. Please note: I still do contract work for this client, but I have unchecked the "I currently work here" box because it makes them show up as my employer, not as my client.

Contributing Writer and Contract Editor

Mauna Lani Resort Association

Author "Spotlight" series of articles on residents to increase connection within the resort's seventeen residential communities. Conduct research and in-person interviews to support content development. Subjects include hospitality professionals, technology pioneers, and the physician to the LA Rams and California Angels.

Contributing Writer

Parker School

Provided end-to-end digital content development and editorial services for prestigious private school website www.parkerschoolhawaii.org. Worked directly with in-house sources to obtain relevant and up-to- date data, updated and created new employee biographies, identified and addressed site-wide tonal inconsistencies, reformatted matrices for consistency, identified content insufficiencies and created original content to communicate the school's unique family culture.

Website Editor and Copy Writer

Guided student teams to develop, create and publish award-winning theme-based yearbooks. Held students to regular publisher deadlines and consistently received publisher's Perfect Production Award for meeting all deadlines on time or early. Transformed yearbook concept from a copyless assemblage of photos to a journalistic document that won statewide publisher's awards for Best Copy and Captions, Best Photography, Best Adobe Photoshop Illustration, and second place for Overall Book.

Supervising Editor and Advisor, Yearbook

Taught upper and middle school English classes with an emphasis on critical reading and writing skills. Developed creative writing program, guiding student generation and revision of works in poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Placed, advised and taught ELL students from the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Established top flight student leadership program, empowering students in governance and the planning and implementation of charity fund-raisers, dances, pep rallies, community volunteer days and two canned food drives supplying local food banks with over five tons of food in volume.

English & Creative Writing Teacher, Student Council Advisor, Exchange Student Coordinator

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* Coach for writers of nonfiction and memoir. Services include outlining, story development, encouragement, cheerleading, and motivational scheduling. 

* Versatile writer specializing in articles and personal profiles.

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