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    Tess Taylor

    TESS TAYLOR
    23 St. Marks Place #1
    Brooklyn, NY, 11217
    (646) 662 7385
    email: tesstay@aol.com


    JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE


    current Freelance contributor, Metropolis magazine, NY, NY

    Monthly or bi-monthly assignments have included visiting Chicago to examine the fall of high rise public housing, interviewing expert architects about the future of green design, and chronicling the development of cutting-edge Parisian street art.

    New York correspondent, architectureweek.com, Portland, OR

    Since September 11, covered the fall of the World Trade Center and development of Ground Zero from an architecture and planning perspective, documenting neighborhood, city planning, and memorial efforts.

    Publications include: salon.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Architectural Record, Architecture Magazine, Time Out New York, and digitalcity.com. Forthcoming in: Times Literary Supplement, Print.

    July 2001- Architects Editor, Oculus Magazine, AIA, New York Chapter, NY, NY

    July 2002 Selected and wrote articles covering architectural forums, conferences, exhibits and events. Developed relationships with architects and firms, and maintained events listings for over fifty New York galleries.

    December 1996- Staff Writer/Editor, The Scene, Amherst, MA
    September 1998 Assigned reviews of local restaurants and bands. Wrote book reviews. Edited and copy-edited submissions.

    September 1997- Curator/Coordinator, The Amherst College Reading Series, Amherst, MA, Hosted nationally known poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers for bi-monthly reading series. Designed and publicized five-college literary events.


    EDUCATION

    current New York University Graduate School of Journalism, Masters Program, Portfolio Fellow
    Graduate training in urban street reporting, political reporting, and magazine feature writing.

    May 2000 Amherst College, Amherst, MA
    Bachelor of Arts in English and Urban Studies, Magna cum Laude, departmental distinctions
    Snyder and Humphries Prizes for writing.

    May 1995 Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA, AP scholar, Women in Science Award.

    SKILLS

    Computer Applications: MS Word, Excel, PC and Macintosh. Internet research applications, some
    Photoshop, some Quark, some web programming Languages: French, Spanish