Resume, Michelle Salater

(843) 364-2401
www.michellesalater.com

Writing Experience

• Contributing travel writer to St. Louis Magazine.
• Wrote content for destination blog covering the city of Charleston, SC for Hotelsbycity.net.
• Published travel articles in International Living, Transitions Abroad, and The Big Blue Marble Newsletter.

Features and News Articles

• Published articles for international, regional, and local magazines, including Missouri Life, The Ozarks Mountaineer, and I Love Cats.

Business Copy

• Wrote webcopy for clients such as Mary Norton.
• Wrote business copy for Color Image, a digital photography and art reproduction company.
• Wrote web copy for small business clients.
• Wrote news and public relations releases and brochure copy for ElderCheck, a non-profit organization.
• Wrote, edited, and designed campaign correspondence for Don Dosser for State Representative.
• Wrote, edited, and designed newsletters for clients, including Missouri League of the South and ArtDimensions. 
• Wrote grant proposals for ArtDimensions, a nonprofit art organization.

Literary Fiction

• "All is Well with the World." Driftwood, August 2007.
• "A Day in the Life of Some Poor Schmuck Who Had to Ride the Train." 2005 Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine. 

Editorial Experience

artD Magazine, St. Louis, Missouri
Managing Editor 
September 2003 to September 2004

• Organized and supervised the development of all copy.
• Wrote articles and managed writers in the preparation of articles and reviews.

The Missouri Fox Newsletter, St. Louis, Missouri
Editor
August 1999 to September 2000

• Wrote articles and managed writers in the preparation of articles and reviews.
• Designed layout and coordinated distribution.

Teaching Experience

• Taught composition in conjunction with appropriate literary selections.

Brentwood Middle School, Charleston, South Carolina
PACT English Instructor
March 2007 to May 2007

• Tutored 6th, 7th, 8th grade students (4-8 students in each group) in language skills, reading, and reading comprehension for PACT testing.

Marian Middle School, St. Louis, Missouri
Volunteer Writing Instructor
January 2004 to June 2004

• Taught journaling, writing skills to 5th through 8th grade girls in an inner-city school.

Honors/Awards

• Semi-finalist in the 2006 Summer Literary Series Kenya Contest for the short story  “Somewhere in the Middle of America.”
• Honorable Mention for Missouri Writers’ Guild’s Best Feature Article of 2005 “Bring on the Bluebirds!”
• Literary Award Grant, Hollins University. 2005-2006.
• Writing Fellow at Dairy Hollow Writers’ Colony, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. June 2005.
• Member of Missouri Writers’ Guild, 2004 to present.

Education

• MFA in Creative Writing, Queens University, Charlotte, North Carolina, May 2007.
• Advanced Fiction Workshop: M.G. Vassanji, Summer Literary Seminars (non-degree program), Kenya, December 2006.
• Advanced Fiction Workshop: Geoff Schmidt, Summer Writers Institute, Washington University (non-degree program), St. Louis, Missouri, June 2004.
• ITC International TEFL Certificate, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000.
• B.A., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Political Science (Minor in East Asian Studies), 1999.