AMW
WRITING & EDITING
As a freelance writer, I have written copy for clients including Disney, Amazon, STX Entertainment, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Jose Cuervo, Kraken Rum, Anheuser-Busch, Stanford University, Fisker Inc., Rakuten, Jason Mraz, and Color Me Badd.
In 2018 I started writing articles for the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. From 2011 to 2018, I wrote a column on arts, sports and technology for the Chicago Jewish Star, where I also served as Assistant Editor.
I won the 2011 Lisagor Award for Best Arts Reporting & Criticism for "Henry Miller & the Jews", an article exploring Miller's relationship to the Jews. I was a finalist for the 2012 Lisagor Award for Sports Story for a story on Jewish bowler Mark Roth, and a finalist for the 2017 Lisagor Award for Sports Story for a story on the history of the Or Torah Softball League in Skokie, Illinois.
Here are a few articles I have written over the years.
"11 Stylish '80s Hip-Hop Album Covers", December 23, 2010
"65 Things You Didn't Know About David Lynch", January 20, 2011
"Still Scandalous: 'Tropic of Cancer' 50 Years Later", June 24, 2011
"Henry Miller & the Jews", July 15, 2011
"The World's Smartest Man" (profile of "Leaping" Lanny Poffo), January 25, 2013
"A Shabbes Goy Named Miriam", April 4, 2014
"Henry Miller, Awakened", May 2, 2014
"Double Play" (history of the Or Torah Softball League), July 14, 2017
"College Credits Racked Up at Torah Academy of Milwaukee", Nov. 9, 2018
"Alfred Bader remembered as entrepreneur, philanthropist, survivor", Jan. 29, 2019
"Jerry Benjamin remembered as ‘bigger than life’; former president of Milwaukee Jewish Federation dies at 67", May 21, 2019
CLIENTS
From 2004 to 2007, I was the editor of two monthly newsletters in Brooklyn: Livin' 84, which covered the goings-on in the Williamsburg apartment at 84 Withers Street that I shared with three roommates, and was distributed throughout the apartment in question; and the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Star Ledger, focused on hyper-local news in Greenpoint, where I lived, and the bordering neighborhood of Williamsburg. It was distributed in local coffee shops and laundromats, as well as by email. Upon its fifth issue, the newsletter was (unfortunately) renamed the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Social Examiner. If you want to read these time capsules, click on the corresponding masthead below:
