Pittershawn Palmer What we do in life, echoes in eternity. Company: Iambia Media Location: Long Pond, Pennsylvania Website: www.pittershawnpalmer.com

Biography:
Pittershawn is a freelance writer, journalist, speechwriter, ghostwriter, copywriter and copyeditor who has worked with Oprah Magazine, Essence, Black Enterprise, Black Voices, Black Issues Book Review, Fierce, The Source, Kuji: The Lifestyle Guide to Self Enrichment, Vision Manifest, a life and business success coaching company and New Vision in Business (NV) magazine, as well as the Chicago Defender, QBR The Black Book Review and the Harlem Book Fair, Pocono Xpress, Urban Books, Quality Press and Q-Boro Books in positions ranging from freelance writer and fact-checker to researcher, content editor, copyeditor, editor-in-chief and associate publisher.

She made her mark in journalism by conducting flawless research and masterful interviews. Since then she has
published dozens of articles covering business, literary and general topics. Pittershawn has done extensive copywriting and copyediting for corporate clients, covering marketing campaign collateral, press releases, and speechwriting for awards and publicity events. She has also copyedited for academic clients, covering course
instruction and seminars, lectures, interviews, articles, performances and exhibits.

Her client list includes L'Oreal's Soft Sheen Carson and Fathom, which covered such institutions as The British Library, American Film Institute, The British Museum, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University, London School of Economics, RAND, Natural History Museum, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Victoria & Albert Museum, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Science Museum and New York Public Library and many others. She has prepared effective grant proposals and business letters and has served as ghostwriter for the Director of the National Brotherhood of Skiers.

As the associate publisher of QBR The Black Book Review and assistant organizer of The Harlem Book Fair, she was in constant contact with major publishers, editors and publicists, including Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Black Classic Press, Third World Press, Penguin Group (USA), John Wiley & Sons, Random House, AOL Time Warner Book Group and numerous independent publishers.

She taught journalism and writing on the weekends to freshman high school students at Hostos Community College through a program run by Young Athletes, Inc. (Y.A.I.)/GEAR UP.

She is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc - Gamma Xi Zeta Chapter, co-chair of Iona College's Multicultural Alumni Chapter and president and CEO of Iambia Media and Iambia Publishing. She is also a member of the Association of Freelancers in Publishing, Toastmasters International and the New York Association of Black Journalists.

Pittershawn earned her B.A. in English from Iona College where she graduated with honors, and was inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society. She is completing her thesis for her Masters in Journalism at the same institution, and will soon begin studies towards an M.F.A. in Writing and hopes to thereafter pursue her Doctorate in Writing.

She is working on her first novel, Arroya’s Memories and has published her works of poetry, Words…Loving Emotions: Poems to Awaken the Soul.

Availability:
Available as a speaker on writing and publishing.