Lisa M. O'Neill Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, San Francisco, Tucson

Developed story ideas. Wrote, researched, and edited essays, creative nonfiction, journalistic feature, news stories. Conducted interviews with local and national subjects for profiles.Publications including: Good Housekeeping, GOOD, Salon, Edible Baja Arizona, Diagram, Defunct, Scalawag, Where Y’at Magazine, The Louisiana Weekly, New Orleans CityBusiness, National Catholic Reporter, commondreams.org, The Fiddleback.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Editing: I work with nonprofits, corporations, and community organizations doing writing, copyediting, and developmental editing for short, medium, and long projects.Creative Ushering: I help writers through the process of bringing their work into being. I call this creative ushering because I feel my role is less to offer critique or to shape your writing for you than to hold space, offer support, and give feedback so the ideas and stories you have can be ushered through, onto the page, and into the world. I offer:Writing Coaching: As your writing coach, I work with you to develop an individualized plan based on your writing goals, whether that be a particular writing project or a set of skills you want to gain. Through coaching sessions (in person, on Skype, or the phone) and individualized prompts and activities, you will set and prioritize writing goals, work to sustain writing practices, follow through with deadlines, and generate creative work that fulfills you.Editing: I work with writers and tailor my services to their project needs, including copyediting and developmental editing for short, medium, and long projects.Manuscript Revision: I offer editing, feedback, and conversation for drafts of nonfiction book-length manuscripts. Memoir, essay collections, creative nonfiction, how-to or self-help, and hybrids of these.

New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Developed plan for and piloted Writers’ Room, a third space for writing and creativity, at the Living School. This included:o Developing curriculum for and teaching/editing/project design for two perfect-bound book projectso Project managing and facilitating the student editorial boardso Project managing and facilitating two publishing parties for the bookso Creating ongoing writing education programming for the Writers’ Room including: Open Studio Hours, Creative Writing Club, support for dual-enrollment students, workshops for college-essay writing. o Supported teachers with workshops and one-on-one professional development o Push-ins to classrooms to support teachers and their classes with writing related to their scope/assignments.o Collecting and submitting data in order to understand the effectiveness of long-term projects • Supported curriculum design and teaching for several community book projects. • Developed materials for the Writers’ Room and best practices based on research and implementation. • Created communications and social media materials to promote and share about the work we were doing with young writers.

Founder/Producer/Host of The Matriarchitects podcast and platform which features the change-makers building a culture that respects, values, and celebrates women.

Tucson, Az

Designed curriculum for and co-taught writing workshop series to develop college application essays for students enrolled in the STEP Program, a program designed to assist underprivileged students in college preparedness and the college application process.

Tucson, Az

Currently plan and teach writing workshops at Arizona State Prison.Created lesson plans and taught creative writing classes with the Inside Out Program in juvenile and adult detention centers in Pima County. Developed curriculum for and taught a month-long writing workshop for juvenile students in adult detention.

Tucson, Arizona

Designed syllabi for and taught classes in first-year composition (personal and academic essay writing; textual and contextual analysis; rhetoric, research, and public argument), fiction and nonfiction creative writing. Facilitated classroom discussion and activities and offered feedback on students' strengths and areas for growth.

Www.Thedictionaryprojectblog.Com

The Dictionary Project is an online literary project devoted to the power of language and of constraint-based writing. For the project, the creator Lisa O'Neill writes pieces inspired by a word picked at random from the dictionary. She invites other writers to participate in creating work for the project. The Dictionary Project is rooted in the expansive nature of the dictionary and of language itself.www.thedictionaryprojectblog.com

Designed and taught English 101 and 102: Academic Writing, Research, and Rhetoric

Tucson, Az

Designed syllabi for and taught classes in first-year composition (personal and academic essay writing; textual and contextual analysis; rhetoric, research, and public argument) and creative nonfiction writing.

Designed and created all foundation publications. Ran public and media relations for the 11-program social service nonprofit serving homeless and low-income San Franciscans. Developed strategic communications plans for advertising campaigns and outreach to recruit new donors and volunteers.

Slidell, La

Researched and wrote three to four articles per day for the 33,000circulation daily newspaper. Built relationships with School Board members and district administrators to cover the local education beat.

New Orleans, La

Helped with event planning, coordinating rsvps and catering for large and small group meetings. Responsible for monthly newsletter of the New Orleans Area Literacy Initiative, an organization created by the Boggs Center to unify organizations addressing adult literacy needs in New Orleans.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Creative Writing

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Language And Literature/Letters, Magna Cum Laude