My Work With
Strange Horizons
Accessibility Editor
June 2019 to Present
I have been working with SH since July 2019 as an Accessibility Editor, adding content warnings to the wide backlog of short stories and poetry the magazine has published to help make our work accessible to more people who may want to avoid certain topics or triggers. Later, I wanted to do more for the magazine and its amazing team, so I reached out and offered my time as an intern, but have continued my work as an Accessibility Editor throughout it all.
Development/PR Team Member
May 2020 to January 2022
During my time as a member of the Development and PR team, I assisted with coordinating the non-profit's fund drives through donor and backer communication, participated in Development team meetings, and wrote strategy and content for social media communication and marketing. I also coordinated Kickstarter fulfillment and shipped physical rewards to supporters. I stepped down from the team to focus on my full-time work.
Intern Assistant Editor
Spring 2020
To earn my Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication MA, I completed an Assistant Editor internship with Strange Horizons, a speculative fiction (specfic) magazine. Founded in 2000, SH is the longest continually-running specfic magazine, and publishes weekly issues with everything form short stories and poetry to book reviews and nonfiction articles, columns, interviews, and roundtable discussions.
As an intern, I worked with SH's Editor in Chief, who at the time was Vanessa Rose Phin. I conducted copious research on social platforms and potential grants and funding opportunities, tracked key Patreon and staff information, assisted in tracking and nominating for industry and genre awards as well as updating an awards page that was seven years out of date, coordinated Kickstarter and Patreon fulfillment, created surveys, and wrote editorials that were published on the site. I also interviewed another SH team member for a feature piece in an issue of the magazine, wrote a grant proposal for a special issue of the magazine, and published several of the magazine's weekly issues, and more.