TYLER STODDARD SMITH
stoddard.smith@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
2004 M.A. in Creative Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder.
1998 B.A. Latin American Studies and English, Rice University.
Languages: Fluency in Spanish; reading ability in French and Portuguese
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2004 to Present Houston and Denver
Freelance Writer
Writing and editing advertising and technical copy, in addition to creating advertising campaigns, composing press releases, reports and manuals for multiple clients, including: Boeing/NASA systems, Rolling Rock, The Houston Zoo, and Rice University, among others.
Instructor, Co-Coordinator
Dreams Within Reach, a non-profit organization that provides computers and teaches computer skills to underprivileged, at-risk youths - providing hands-on learning techniques that introduce and familiarize students with basic computer programs and a working knowledge of the Internet.
2002-2004 Boulder, Colorado
Instructor
English Department, University of Colorado, Boulder (as a full-time graduate student in Creative Writing at UCB)
--full responsibility for multiple undergraduate classes in creative writing and English literature.
--Selected best graduate instructor in the English Department for two years in a row; nominated twice for the best graduate instructor in the entire University
2000-2002 Houston
Press Secretary
Taipei Cultural and Informational Division, Houston, TX
--wrote press releases and speeches for Director General; media consultant
Freelance Writer,
FoxSports.com -- reviews and articles
RECENT PUBLICATIONS/CLIENTS
Copies of these works, as well as others that have appeared in MB Magazine, Talk, The Broadsheet, and online available on request:
- Esquire, in which also named an “up-and-coming humorist”
- Meridian (University of Virginia Press)
- Mcsweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes (Vintage)
- The Best American Fantasy (Prime Books)
- Last Drink Bird Head (Prime Books)
- Square One (University of Colorado Press)
- Fresh Yarn
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