MEGAN McMORRIS
megmc@earthlink.net
www.meganmcmorris.com

MAGAZINE FREELANCE WRITER with articles published in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Runner’s World, Fitness, Self, Shape, Cooking Light, Woman’s Day, Ladies Home Journal, Hooked on the Outdoors, Teen People, InStyle, Real Simple, Every Day With Rachael Ray, Prevention, Parents, Mademoiselle, Muscle & Fitness HERS, All You, Best Life, Sports Illustrated Women, Delicious Living, Oxygen, Energy for Women, Experience Life, Lifetimetv.com, Via, Yoga Journal, Time Out New York, The Writer, and The Oregonian. 2000 to present. Portland , OR.

CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS WRITER for companies such as NIKE. Writing for internal communications websites and newsletters. 2005 to present. Portland , OR.

 

BOOK AUTHOR/EDITOR. Editor of PS What I Didn’t Say: Unsent Letters to Our Female Friends (Seal Press, 2009), Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends (Seal Press, 2007), Woman’s Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives (Seal Press, 2006), co-author of Pacific Northwest Hiking (Avalon Travel, 2005) and author of Oregon Hiking (Avalon Travel, 2004). 2004 to present. Portland , OR .

 

TRAVEL/OUTDOORS EDITOR at Fitness magazine. Wrote, assigned, and edited travel, outdoors, and fitness stories; oversaw photo shoots. 1999 to 2000. New York , NY .

 

SENIOR EDITOR at Fit magazine. Wrote, assigned, and edited fitness, health, nutrition, and beauty stories. 1996 to 1999. New York , NY.

 

ASSOCIATE EDITOR at Fit magazine. Wrote, copy-edited and proofread fitness, health, nutrition, and beauty stories; oversaw internship program. 1994 to 1996. New York , NY.

 

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT at Working Mother magazine. Assisted the food editor, executive editor and deputy editor with clerical duties; wrote beauty stories and news items; oversaw internship program. 1993 to 1994. New York , NY.

 

EDITORIAL INTERN at Sassy magazine. Assisted staff writers with stories and clerical duties. 1992 to 1993. New York , NY.

 

RESEARCH ASSISTANT for Debra Kent, columnist and freelance writer. Assisted Debra with research for stories; wrote sidebars. 1992. Bloomington , IN.

 

EDITORIAL INTERN at Health and Fitness magazine (internship program through Boston University ). Assisted entire editorial staff; wrote health stories. Summer 1991. London , England.

 

EDUCATION
Indiana University , B.A. in magazine journalism, 1992