Angela Fountas

Writer • Project Manager

Contact: afountas[at]writehabit[dot]org

Profile

I'm a writer with an MFA in creative writing, currently putting my management, collaboration, and juggling skills to use as a project manager for a Seattle nonprofit. I also teach writing at Richard Hugo House, 826 Seattle, and other locales.

See my artist résumé.

Work History

Project Manager, Committee for Children, Seattle • Present
Manage projects for the Marketing department, including collateral, direct mail, and electronic communications. Maintain communications with stakeholders throughout the organization. Analyze marketing promotions. Work closely with director, design team, product and web managers, and editorial.

Contract Writer, Digital Learning Commons, Seattle • 2004–2008
Wrote and edited web content, e-newsletters, grant proposals, and print collateral. Interviewed educators and wrote success stories. Maintained in-house style guide. Worked closely with technology director, web designer, and content specialists.

Contract Writer, Committee for Children, Seattle • 2004–2008
Provided project management for quarterly e-newsletters. Wrote web content, product brochures, catalog copy, direct mail, and annual reports. Worked closely with marketing managers, content specialists, editors, and designers.

Contract Writer, WetFeet, San Francisco • May–July 2006
Revised a career/industry guide on the nonprofit and government sectors.

Contract Writer, Custom Editorial Productions, Cincinnati • July–September 2004
Created web activities to accompany middle school vocabulary textbooks published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.

Assistant Editor, Committee for Children, Seattle • 2001–2004
Edited elementary and middle school curricula, marketing collateral, and web content. Researched and wrote client success stories. Maintained in-house style guide and product style sheets. Obtained and granted reprint permissions. Worked closely with curriculum developers and design team.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Alabama English Department, Tuscaloosa • 1997–2000
Taught nine composition and creative writing classes at the freshman, sophomore, and junior levels. Awarded four teaching commendations.

Education

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, University of Alabama, 2001
• Awarded graduate teaching assistantship, teaching writing fellowship, research and travel grant, and two alumni fiction awards

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1993
• Concentrations in English literature and film studies

Creative Writing Classes

Richard Hugo House • 2004–2007
Fixed Form Narratives, summer 2007; Lit-Mag Reading Club, spring 2007; Fiction in a Flash, winter 2007; Feverish Fiction Retreat, spring 2006; Tap Your True Voice, winter 2006; Bedtime Stories, fall 2005; Cut It Short, spring 2005; Short-Short Story Lab, winter 2005 and fall 2004; The Writing Habit, spring 2004.

Phinney Neighborhood Center • 2003–2004
Compact Prose, spring 2004; Build a Story, winter 2004; The Writing Habit, fall 2003.

University of Washington Women's Center • 2001–2004
Research-Fueled Fiction, winter 2004 and summer 2003; All About the MFA in Creative Writing, winter 2003 and winter 2002; How to Grow Words, spring 2002 and summer 2001.

Skills & Styles

Microsoft Office for PC and Mac. HTML (WYSIWYG and hand-coded) and CSS. Content management systems (Zope and Hot Banana). Chicago Manual of Style and house styles.

Outreach Project

Founded Writehabit.org, a website in support of new and emerging writers, in 2003.

Affiliations

826 Seattle, Artist Trust, Richard Hugo House, Seattle Writergrrls, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Women in Digital Journalism