Writing Samples
Communications Decency Act of 1996
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Preserve
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Writing Samples Communications Decency Act of 1996 Flower Garden Banks National Marine Preserve
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My professional writing career began during my undergraduate years at Tulane University, where I earned my bachelor of English degree. Tribe Magazine, a now-defunct pop-culture magazine based in New Orleans, asked me to do a few snappy product and record reviews and eventually began to assign me feature music articles. I conducted interviews with several internationally-known recording artists, including Luscious Jackson, James Hall, and Emergency Broadcast Network. At the same time, Tribe published a monthly technology feature of mine entitled "Phreakers." While at Tulane, the Tulane Literary Magazine published a short story of mine. This story led the estate of John Kennedy Toole, author of "A Confederacy of Dunces," to award me a scholarship. After I graduated magna cum laude from Tulane, the Louisiana State University creative writing program admitted me. At LSU, I studied under internationally-known novelist, poet, and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, who sat on my thesis committee. Just after I earned my master of fine arts, Berkeley-based Creative Arts Book Company bought my first novel and slated it for publication in the spring of 2002. Also, just after graduation, I began to write for, edit, and lay out Go Gulf, a Gulf of Mexico offshore oil industry magazine based in Baton Rouge. |