Lily Stephens Email & Phone Number

Supported marketing & sales department publicity efforts by coordinating awards, social media, endorsements, review copies, events, and maintaining seasonal schedules. Also managed domestic and foreign subsidiary rights.

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Coordinated a wide variety of tasks for a small academic press, including: contracts, subsidiary rights, permissions, copyright, royalties & other payment assistance, student internship program, and HR admin. Also provided acquisitions, editorial, and marketing support (endorsement solicitation, copy editing, metadata entry, etc.).

Savannah, Georgia Area

Recommended, sold, and organized books at an independent bookstore.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Produced digital articles on deadline in a custom CMS (selected photos and wrote captions, edited videos, created HTML embeds and optimized for search) and assisted with homepage management and social media.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Wrote marketing copy for 1,500+ e-commerce products, created a digital copywriting guide, and designed a marketing campaign for new customers.

Chapel Hill, NC

Assisted with School of Government communications and instructional design through research and copy editing (of book chapters, journal articles, and course content). Specialized in translating technical information into language for a non-technical audience.

Walnut Creek, California

As part of the Dow Jones News Fund editing internship program, I attended a 10-day intensive training session at the University of Texas at Austin and then spent the summer copy editing for the East Bay Times and the Mercury News.

Chapel Hill, NC

Copy edited and fact checked daily student newspaper.

Chapel Hill, NC

Wrote feature stories, blog posts, event roundups, and tweets for Chapel Hill Magazine and Durham Magazine. Copy edited and proofed print editions of each publication.

Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism - Editing & Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Writer for Spoon University UNC-CH chapter

Certificate, Columbia Publishing Course At Oxford University

Four-week intensive course on all aspects of book publishing. Served as Design Director during week-long book workshop simulation.

Italian History And Visual Art

High School Diploma