1856 Los Encantos Court

Hannah Miller
215-888-8036
golden.notebook@gmail.com
www.hannahmiller.net

Qualifications

Experienced reporter and writer for newspapers and magazines.
Subjects have included business, labor, criminal justice, municipal government, health care, and technology. Styles included straight news, personal profiles, features, humor, first-person travelogue, and a business column about the lovely frivolities of consumer society.
Trained in Associated Press, New York Times, and Chicago styles.
Conversant in Mandarin, Spanish, and French.

Experience

Freelancer Philadelphia, PA	Current Working on fiction, narrative non-fiction, and news pieces, the last published by Salon.com in September 2004. Also completed editorial work on recently released non-fiction book, Will Write for Food.
The Bucks County Courier Times Daily newspaper Levittown, PA	News Reporter, Oct. 1999-Aug. 2001 Wrote approx. 275 stories on education, business, crime, courts, and local government - plus a weekly column.
The Los Angeles Times Daily newspaper Los Angeles, CA	Metro Reporting Intern, January - May 1999 Wrote 10 breaking news and features for the Metro section.
The Arizona Republic Daily newspaper Phoenix, AZ	Metro Reporting Intern, June - September 1998 Wrote 25 breaking news stories, several on the front page; covered crime on the night shift.
Upside Monthly magazine San Mateo, CA	Editorial Assistant, July - Sept, 1995 Brainstormed story ideas on coverage of Silicon Valley; wrote tables of contents and headlines; maintained thousands of research files.
News for A People's World Monthly newspaper Berkeley, CA	Reporter, and member of the Editorial Committee, June 1993 - April 1994 Covered local news, wrote features on local government, copyedited, and brainstormed coverage ideas
Shanghai Singapore International School Shanghai, China	English teacher, Feb. 2002- Feb, 2003 Taught 3 kindergarten classes in a bilingual Chinese-English classroom; designed the school's Speech and Drama program
Service Employees International Union, Local 347 Los Angeles, CA	Researcher, Jan. - June 1999 At one of the largest unions in L.A., did extensive field surveys of working condition in non-unionized workplaces.

Awards

2005 Writer's Digest Short-Short Story Contest - placed for The Mommy Stall

Education
University of California at Los Angeles, B.A. in Sociology, June 1999
Certification to Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages, Transworld School, Sept. 2001

References available upon request.