Lorraine Berry is a freelance writer and editor seeking work-from-home publishing and research assignments. She has over 20 years of experience in writing, editing, and publishing including owning her own creative agency and serving as project director for a student magazine. She has also taught writing courses at the university level. Her areas of expertise include creative nonfiction, memoir writing, gender and race issues in media.

1. Lorraine Berry
W r iter & Ed ito r
(386) 256-7204 – lorraine_berry@yahoo.com http://ambersands.net
Writerand Editorwithextensive andvariedexperience seeksopportunitiesforwork-from-homepublishing
and researchassignments.
E X P E R I E N C E
2015-present C o - o w n e r & P r i n c i p al — a mb e r Sa n ds C r e a t i v e
My partnerandI provide clientswiththe toolstheyneed toconduct
conversationswiththeircustomers,withtheircompetitors,andwithintheir
owncompanies.We offerservicesrangingfrompressreleasesto copywriting,
editingmanuscriptstowritingworkshopsformore effectivecommunication.
1998-present F r e e l a nc e w r i t e r/ e d i t o r
My educationandmyresearchskillsenable me towrite in-depthfeaturesand
expositorypiecesthateducate readers. Ihave outstandinginterview skillsthat
have allowedme towrite freshprofilesof publicfigures. Ihave developeda
reputationinmyfield forwritinghard-hitting,astute piecesaboutgender,
power,andrace inthe UnitedStates.
2003-2015 P r o j e c t D i r e c t or — Ne o Vox m a g a z i ne ; S U N Y - C or t l a n d
Supervisedastaff of writersanddesignersforastudent-runmagazineatthe
State Universityof New Yorkat Cortland. I editedarticle content,supervised
and instructedstudentinterns,andestablishedannual themesforthe
magazine. Imanagedthe budget,andworkedwithbothfacultyandthe
administrationtointegrate the magazine into variouscurricula.Iorganized
teach-instoeducate students,faculty,andstaff onissuesnotcoveredwell in
the media.(e.g. DemocraticRepublicof the CongoandSexual Violence against
Women;The Death Penalty,etc.)
2003-2015 W r i t i n g I n s t r u c t or f o r 3 0 0 - l e v e l w r i t i n g c o u r s e s
In additiontosupervising NeoVox atSUNY-Cortland,Ialsotaught courseseach
semester.Idesignedandtaughtonwritingcreative nonfiction,memoirwriting,
travel writing,writingaboutgender courses andrace. I alsotaught a course that
preparedstudentsforwritingformagazines.
2010-Present C o n t r i b u ti ng E d i t o r— T a l ki ng W r i t i ng M a g a z i ne
I beganas a contributingwriterat Talking Writing in2010. I wasinvitedby
Editor-in-Chief MarthaNicholstocontribute tothe magazine,whichfocuseson
the culture of writingandpublishing.Sincethen,Ihave heldanumberof posts,
includingCreativeNonfictioneditorandSeniorEditor.Inow serve inan ad hoc
position.

2. 1998-2001 A s s i s t a n t E d i t o r — M om e nt u m M e d i a P u b l i sh i n g
I conductedinterviews, researched,andwrote articlesthatcoveredthe NCAA
and itspolicies,collegesportsadministration,social issuesthataffected
athletics,sportsmedicine andathletictraining.Idevelopedanexpertise inlegal
issuesandsport,includingTitle IXandthe FirstAmendment.
E D U C A T I O N
1997 M a s t e r o f A r t s ( A B D ) C o r n e l l U n i v e r si t y
Early ModernEuropeanCultural History
1993 M a s t e r o f A r t s U n i v e r si ty o f W a s h i n gt on
The ReformationandModernEuropeanIntellectual History
1987 B a c h e l o r o f A r t s U n i v e r s i t y o f W a s h i n gt o n
Comparative Historyof Ideas
Academic Award
& Honors
M e l l o n F e l l o ws hi p
L a n g u a g e a n d A r e a S t u d i e s F e l l ow sh i p
B e a t r i c e B r o w n A w a r d
A r t h u r D e n n y M e m o r i a l F e l l ow s hi p
S K I L L S
Languages French,Italian,Latin

3. Lorraine Berry
List of Publications
N.B. For a complete listof the 139 articles written for Raw Story, please consult index at
http://www.rawstory.com/author/lberry/.
“I had a miscarriage. Fetal Burial Rules Would Only Amplify My Grief,” Vox, December 6, 2016
“What Spoke That Strange Silence? On Grief and Memoir,” Brooklyn Magazine,November 11, 2016
“Hurricane Matthew: I almost refused to evacuate – Here’s why I changed my mind,” Vox, October 7, 2016
“Dear Taylor Swift (And Other White Feminists)” Talking Writing, September 12, 2016
“The Horror of Female Adolescence and How to Write About It,” The Guardian, August 10, 2016
“Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table by Ellen Wayland-Smith – sex, faith and cutlery,” The Guardian,
June 9, 2016
‘They:’ the singular pronoun that could solve sexism in the English language,” The Guardian,
May 5, 2016
“John Lennon, 1980, and Me: An appreciation of Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone,” The Guardian, February 10, 2016
“Samantha Bee: ‘I’m the only woman stupid enough to do this job,” The Guardian, February 8, 2016
“Artistic License,” Catapult,December 1, 2015
“The Internet is the Ideal Place for the Essay,” The Guardian (UK), November 5, 2015
“Every Neighborhood Had a Rodney King: Interview with Ryan Gattis,” Salon,September 3, 2015
“The Language of Grief,” Salon,July 27, 2015
“Destructive Interference,” Nous, No. 5, Summer 2015
“Anything You Can Do,” Talk given at HERSTORY, May 30, 2015.
"Show Me a Feminist," Chicagoliterati,April 22, 2015
"Keurig and Me: A Coffee Lover's Confession," Dame, April 3, 2015
"Norman Mailer’s Ghost Still Smells: Why Literature is Still a White Man's World," given in recognition of WHM, March
12, 2015. SUNY Cortland
"Caitlin Moran: 'You Just Can't Argue With Cool,'" Talking Writing,November 3, 2014
"The Guide to Grief," Embodied Effigies. Fall 2014
"From Ireland to Chile, the Babies of Unwed Mothers Met Horrific Fates," Dame, June 3, 2014
"Literary Politics: White Guys and Everyone Else," panel organized for AWP conference, Seattle, Feb. 26-March 1, 2014
"Zadie Smith Talks About Death – Thank God," Talking Writing,February 21, 2014
"Catfight! Forget 'Real Housewives.' 'Nashville' and 'Coven" Is Where It's At!” Dame, January 29, 2014
"My Very Un-American Halloween," Salon,October 30, 2013
"Wordless:Writer's Block and Grief," Talking Writing,Fall 2013
"When I Couldn't Feed My Family," Salon,September 21, 2013
"First Season Without My Dad," ManchesterCity official website, September 12, 2013
"Scrabble Marriage," Specter, Summer 2013
"Silence is Where We Locate Our Voice," Interview with Terry Tempest Williams, Talking Writing, Spring 2013
"What Should We Do About Wikipedia?" Talking Writing, Spring 2013
"Literary Fiction is a Genre, Too." Interview with J. Robert Lennon, Talking Writing,Spring 2013
"The Women of the Congo," talk given for GIRL UP, a fundraiser for FemTastic. Trumansburg Conservatory. March 29,
2013
"Success is the Best Revenge: Connie Willis interview, pt. II," Talking Writing,Winter 2013
"The Walking Dead: A Feminist Critique," talk given to SUNY Cortland as part of WHM, March 26, 2013
"Representations on Women Writers in Literary Culture," talk given at Ithaca High School for Women's History Month
sponsored by SWIS, March 18, 2013
"Teaching Writing When the Unimaginable Happens: Students Grapple with Sandy Hook and Columbine," Talking
Writing, Winter 2013
"Why I'm Cancelling My Subscription: An Open Letter to Harper's from a Loyal Reader," Flavorwire, March 15, 2013.
"Women Writers and Bad Interviews," Talking Writing, Winter, 2013 (republished at http://www.vidaweb.org/women-
writers-and-bad-interviews by Women in Literary Arts.)
Book review of “After Pornified,” Bitch Magazine,Jan 2013
"History is the Raw Data: Interview with Connie Willis, Part I" Talking Writing, Winter 2013
"Feminism, Roe v Wade, and the State of Women," Wild, Wild Left Podcast, January 25, 2013
"Raylan Givens 'Justified' My Love," Salon,Jan. 12, 2013
"I'm One of the NRA's Bad Guys," Salon,Dec. 21, 2012
"I Won't Shop on Thanksgiving," Salon,Nov. 22, 2012
"What the National Book Awards Missed," Talking Writing,Nov/Dec, 2012
"The Walking Dead Has Become a White Patriarchy," Salon,November 11, 2012
"Why Did A Manipulative Movie Make Me Cry?" Talking Writing, Nov/Dec, 2012
"What Students Need Most: A B.S. Detector," Talking Writing, Sept/Oct 2012
"Caitlin Moran: Women Have Won Nothing," Salon,Oct. 16, 2012
"A Four-Foot Tall Fran Leibowitz: Interview with Jo Miller," Talking Writing,Sept/Oct, 2012

4. "The Motherof All Bonfires: Interview with Nichole Bernier," Talking Writing, Sept/Oct, 2012
"First Date" for CBC's radio program, Definitely Not the Opera, September 22, 2012
"Why We're Not Grateful--Yet," (co-authored with Martha Nichols), Talking Writing, Sept/Oct, 2012
"Lust: The Literary Courtesan," Talking Writing, Sept/Oct, 2012
"Serenading the Bears," SugarMule, August,2012
"My Slide Back to Painkillers," Salon,July 16, 2012
"The Dictionary Project interview with Lorraine Berry," The Dictionary Project, June 13, 2012
"Old Bones, New Flowers in the Judiths," Talking Writing, May/June, 2012
"The Subversive Side of My Personality: Interview with Richard Zimler," Talking Writing, May/June,2012
"Raquette Lake," Talking Writing,March/April, 2012
"There Is No Art Without Sex: Interview with Susie Bright," Talking Writing, March/April, 2012
"The Danger of Wanting to Be a Writer: Interview with Robert Olen Butler," Talking Writing, Jan/Feb, 2012
"Gingko," Diagram, January, 2012
"Dear Female Students:Stop Writing About Men," Salon,January 23, 2012
"The Kitchen Conjuror: Book Review of The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry, Talking Writing, Nov/Dec, 2011
"The Bad Cook Blues," Talking Writing, Nov/Dec, 2011
"The Ashes IWasn't Meant to Find," Salon,October 29, 2011
"Billy Boy," Ithaca College View, 2011/3
"What Memphis Taught Me," Fictionique,May, 2011
"From the Vineyard to Harvard: A book review of Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, Talking Writing, May/June,
2011
"Coffee House Confessions," Ithaca College View, 2011/2
"Readers are a Pragmatic Bunch: Interview with Emma Donoghue," Talking Writing,May/June,2011
"Books: You Sexy Things," Talking Writing, May/June,2011
"How Getting Divorced Revived My Sex Life," Salon,April 26, 2011
"Not Afraid of the Dark," Talking Writing, March/April, 2011
"Abstaining From the Anti-Sex Campaigns," Common Dreams, April 29, 2011
"No, Female Professors Aren't Ruining College," Salon,March 28, 2011
"Accidental Memoir: A Review of Half a Life by Darin Strauss," Talking Writing, March/April, 2011
"Smells Like Regret," Talking Writing, Jan/Feb, 2011
"Earth's the Right Place for Love," Talking Writing,Jan/Feb, 2011
"Nostalgia," The Raven Chronicles, Vol. 15, No. 2
"Reflecting on War and Those Who Do Not," Common Dreams, November 11, 2010
"Our First Date Was the Last Day of His Life," Salon,October 1, 2010
"Unlocking Emma Donoghue's "ROOM," Talking Writing, Sept/Oct, 2010
"Growing Gardens and Community," Ithaca College View, 2010/2
"Being a Teacher-Therapist in the Wake of Suicides," Salon,August 30, 2010
"Does Mehlman Deserve Our Understanding?" Salon,August 26, 2010
"Dear Congress:We The People Are Starving," Common Dreams, July 20, 2010
"Murder on Valentine Mountain," Slow Trains, Fall/Winter 2009-2010
"Getting Inside Race," Ithaca College View, 2009/4
"25 Years of IC View: A Retrospective," (co-authored with Mbeti Hyess), Ithaca College View, 2009/2
"Making It Look Good: Interview with Carol Goodling," Ithaca College View, 2009/2
"101 Words," Salome,January 12, 2009
"Clockwatcher," Bottom of the World, July, 2008
"Chicory Blue," you are here: The Journal of Creative Geography, Summer, 2008
"Scarecrows," Salome, April 21, 2008
Assorted Faculty Portraits, Wells College Express
"Keela Dates," Wells College Express
"Roscoe," Salome, November 5, 2007
"Keeper of the Orphans," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2006/1
"Streams of Happiness," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2005/4
"Sitting With the Dead: In Solidarity with Cindy Sheehan," Common Dreams, August 11, 2005
"Bridging Campuses—and Cultures," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2005/2
"Courting a Dream," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2004/3
"Natural Degree," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2004/2
"The Making of the Major," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2004/2
"From Bombers to Bobcats," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2003/4
"Back from the Peace Corps," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2003/3
"Renaissance Man," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2003/3
"What Really Matters," Ithaca College Quarterly, 2002/4