Deirdre Day-MacLeod

I have written everything from award-winning television commercials
to an award-winning dissertation on 19th-century British Literature.

My work has appeared on national television, in esoteric academic journals,
and pretty much any other place you find words.

Advertising:
Foote, Cone & Belding/New York -
Frito-Lay, Nabisco, Colgate-Palmolive, Bermuda, AT&T and others
Freelance -
Nick, Jr., Discovery Kids, Hover Media, Tank Industries, Workman Publishing, Nick at Nite, Playskool, Happy Baby, and others

Editorial:
The New York Times, Encyclopedia Britannica.com, Seventeen, New Jersey Life, Ticker, The Independent, and others

Ghostwriting:
Fiction, Autobiography, Business/Organization, Scholarly (Historical and Sociological), Children’s, Parenting, Case Studies, Biographies, Speeches, Etc.

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Features:
”Body Art or Tattoo? It still hurts,” New York Times.
“Out of the Basement With a Scream and a Dream,” The New York Times.
“The Future of Public Television,” The Independent.

Selected Essays:
“Navel Gazing,” Identity Theory, May 2004 (originally Britannica.com, 2001) <http://www.identitytheory.com/nonfiction/day_navel.php>

"I'm Not Feeling Like Myself Today,”
<http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a3183.asp>" Media Bistro

“Hell in High Heels,” Taint Magazine
http://www.taintmagazine.com/index.php?dept=Archive&work_id=277&arc_needle=deirdre

Available upon request:

Deirdre Day-MacLeod’s Specialties:

Humor, music, art, literature, internet

Deirdre Day-MacLeod’s Experience

Assistant Professor

Montclair State University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Teaching First Year writing, World Literature, Creative Nonfiction.
Books Editor

s3 Magazine

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)
Writer/Ghostwriter/Editor
Freelance (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Publishing industry)

January 1988 — Present (21 years 7 months)
Writer

Freelance Writer

(Writing and Editing industry)

2000 — 2007 (7 years)

I have written a book on blogging for teens, a book on viruses (the computer kind) for tweens, two books on Mexico for pre-tweens. I've written for the New York Times and Laundry Today, for documentaries, websites, blogs and more.
Senior Staff Writer

Bauer Publishing

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

March 2002 — April 2003 (1 year 2 months)
Senior Staff Writer

First for Women

(Writing and Editing industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year)
Visiting Assistant Professor

East Stroudsburg University

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 6 months)
Freelance

Cronkite Productions

(Writing and Editing industry)

1998 — 1998 (less than a year)
Graduate Assistant

Queens College

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 1990 — May 1997 (6 years 9 months)
Copywriter

Foote, Cone & Belding

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 1984 — September 1987 (3 years 6 months)
Assistant

J. Walter Thompson

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WPP; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 1983 — May 1984 (1 year 2 months)