Resume / CV Gary G Gach

1. Gary Gach * 415 771 7793 * gary . gach @ gmail.com * http:// word.to
BA, English. Available full-time, part-time or for contract work. Core competencies:
structure, plain speech, versatility, thoroughness, dynamic team player, personable with
public and vendors (Myers-Briggs intuitive extrovert). Background in communications,
media, and journalism, including …
Editorial — Editor-in-Chief of Cable-TV Guide (circulation 500,000). Buddhism
editor, Patheos. Arts & Religion Editor, AsianWeek. Copy-editor, four books (for China
Books & Periodicals, and Korean Literary Translation Institute), as well as all 450
entries of the Encyclopedia Koreana. Associate editor, San Francisco Review of Books.
Edited my own books (eight). Co-founded agency to assist holistic doctors publishing
papers and books. Polished translations from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Persian.
Editing for Waldorf School of San Francisco, Moscow Interlegal, and Washington
Research Institute.
Publicity — Publicist, The Cannery Theater (where I aslo programmed and booked,
including creating four-panel calendars). Created an online eight-section media advisory
for Foundation for American Communications. Publicized my books, setting up inter-
views, reviews, and readings. Worked with numerous publicists as writer, generating
features about their books, films, film festivals, conferences, trade shows, and exhi-
bitions. Other clients include China Society and Vietnamese WakeUp,
Writer — Communications entrepreneur for Big Picture topics: pitched and wrote
first mass-market pocketbook guide to the Internet (1996) and a Complete Idiot's Guide
for Buddhism (2009). Recipient of an American Book Award, Nautilus Award, North-
ern California Book Award, and a grant from the Lannan Foundation. Website design
and grant-writing consultant for Madera Group. Works published in +100 journals,
magazines, and periodicals (Christian Science Monitor, The New Yorker, Chicago
Tribune) and a dozen anthologies. Ad copywriter, JWT. Columnist for Dow Theory
Letters. Have interviewed movie stars and Nobel laureates, corporate executives and
Dharma punks.
Design — Typography for over a dozen books, Spaghetti Factory menu, and ads.
Skills — Type/transcribe 90 wpm w/o errors. Shorthand. Mac literate. Adept at social
media. Quick study at learning new software and skills.
Miscellaneous — Hospital admin. Voice-overs for documentaries (bass voice).

2. Stevedore. Health, excellent (Bay swimmer). References gladly furnished upon request.