Madelyn Rosenberg Email and Phone Number

As communications writer for a national nonprofit, I write and post articles, edit newsletters, condense information for news summaries, and work across departments and with partner nonprofits. Always available to collaborate with other staff members on edits and ideas.

A freelance writer since leaving daily newspapers in 2000, my expertise includes feature writing, personality profiles, music and entertainment writing, and parenting articles. Other issues I've covered have included business, art, health and higher education. My work has appeared in the American Journalism Review, The Washington Post, Baby Years, Parenting, Boston Herald, Bluegrass Unlimited, Bon Appetit, CMJ, the Virginian Pilot, Progressive Engineering, Skirt, Virginia Business, American Artist, Watercolor Magazine, N.C. State's Alumni Magazine, University of Richmond's Alumni Magazine, The Music Monitor, The Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Rough Guides Book of Playlists, Make the Most of Your Time on Earth (Rough Guides), Ladybug Magazine, eMusic, Other Voices, Literary Mama, How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel. I've also written a counting book and coloring books for one of my clients. I am a frequent contributor to Arlington Magazine. Freelance editing work has included novels (middle-grade, young adult and adult) for individuals as well as text-editing for National Geographic. To view some sample articles, old and new, visit: http://www.squealermusic.com/madclips/wordpress2/?page_id=1495

Author of more than a dozen traditionally published children's books for kids of all ages, including picture books, middle-grade novels, and young-adult novels. Titles include:The Schmutzy Family (2012, Holiday House)Happy Birthday, Tree (2012, Albert Whitman)Canary in the Coal Mine (2013, Holiday House)Dream Boy (2014, Sourcebooks, with Mary Crocket)Nanny X (2014, Holiday House)How to Behave at a Tea Party (2014, Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins)Nanny X Returns (2015, Holiday House)How to Behave at a Dog Show (2015, Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins)This is Just a Test (2017, Scholastic, with Wendy Wan-Long Shang)Take Care (2018, Albert Whitman)Cyclops of Central Park( 2020, G.P. Putnam's Sons)Not Your All-American Girl (2020, Scholastic, with Wendy Wan-Long Shang)One Small Hop (2021, Scholastic)Leaping Llama (2023, National Geographic)Quasi-updated website at: www.madelynrosenberg.com.

Instructor for beginning journalism classes

During a decade at the Roanoke Times, a newspaper with the circulation of 100,000, my duties included:•Wrote stories, profiles and essays and worked on group projects•Served on newspaper's Internet steering committee•Edited and supervised a staff of up to 10 reporters and photographers•Mined multiple beats including cops and courts, Pulaski county, higher education, music and Southern culture