Laurel Maury

Current

• Freelance writer at National Public Radio
• Freelance Writer at self-employed (Self-employed)
• freelancer at Los Angeles Times

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Past

• Editorial Assistant at The New Yorker Magazine

Education

• Columbia University in the City of New York
• Bennington College
• Bryn Mawr

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Laurel Maury’s Experience

• Freelance writer

  National Public Radio

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Freelance book critic specializing in graphic novels.

• Freelance Writer

  self-employed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)

  November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  Self-employed freelance writer and book reviewer. Writes regularly for the LA Times, and Publishers Weekly. Writes less regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Stranger and The New Yorker. Work has also appeared in TeenVogue, Plenty Magazine, Moscow Times, South China Morning Post, British Journalism Review, Domino, The New York Sun, New York Press, and other publications. Articles and reviews upcoming in Contribute Magazine, and Out.
  
  If you wish to add me to your connections, please note that I work mostly as a book reviewer, and that most newspapers require that reviewers not have contact with the creators of works they review, nor personal connections with publishers whose books they review. In many cases, it's written into the contract.
  
  For this reason I tend not to link to publicists for the book industry.

• freelancer

  Los Angeles Times

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2003 — Present (6 years )

• Editorial Assistant

  The New Yorker Magazine

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 2001 — November 2006 (5 years 3 months)

  Editorial assistant and archivist/researcher in The New Yorker's editorial library.

Laurel Maury’s Education

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  1999 — 2002

• Bennington College

• Bryn Mawr

Additional Information

Laurel Maury’s Groups:

The Author's Guild

National Writer's Union

•    Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art - MoCCA

Laurel Maury’s Honors:

--Asked by MoCCA to chair panel on women in comics and cartooning.

--Lead panel on reviewing for 2006 San Diego Comic-Con

--First writer to review a graphic novel as a cover story for The Los Angeles Times Book Review.

--Hertog Fellow, Columbia University - 2001. Grant to work with writer and historian Blanche Weisen Cook on the final volume of her biography of Eleanor Roosevelt.

--Senior Poetry Advisor, The Missouri Review, 1997-1999. Managed their nationally-known History Prize in poetry.

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