Nicole Idar Lee Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

London, GB

I started out as a freelance writer and in December 2016 was named Features Editor at Global Corporate Venturing magazine, a monthly publication covering the world's biggest corporate venturing units.At GCV Magazine I interviewed influential leaders from across the global corporate venturing community, including Trina Van Pelt at Intel Capital and Kai Bond.

Washington, D.C., US

I created a course called "Writing about Photojournalism"--which analyses how the media uses photographs to shape the way we think about global events--to help students understand the power of images in our increasingly visual age. In November 2015, I spoke at the International Visual Literacy Association conference in San Francisco.

As Editor at Large for Asymptote, a digital magazine featuring literary works by Nobel Prizewinners such as JM Coetzee and Herta Muller, I curated the best in contemporary Malaysian writing, and shared it with a global audience.My interview with Man Asia Prizewinner Tan Twan Eng was one of Asymptote's Top 10 Most Popular Posts in 2013, and in July 2015.

Bethesda, MD, US

During my scholarship year I initiated and moderated panels for a one-day seminar, "Make Lit Happen,"​ which examined the value of MFA programs for an audience of emerging and established writers considering whether to pursue a Master's degree in creative writing. The seminar was held in October 2012 and October 2013 at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD..

I was selected to attend writing residencies across North America to work on my creative projects. I was an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, a Wired Writing Fellow at The Banff Centre in Canada, and a Cafritz Scholar at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA.

Fairfax, Virginia, US

I was the sole recipient of a Thesis Fellowship in Fiction in my final year of a 3-year MFA program in creative writing at George Mason University, and was named Outstanding Graduate Student in creative writing. During the 2009-2010 academic year I designed and taught English 101 and 201 (Writing about Texts) courses for the English Department, and in.

New York, NY, US

I analyzed leveraged buyouts and wrote commentary on deals typically valued at $500 million or more for Breakingviews, a unit of Thomson Reuters.

New York, NY, US

As Dow Jones's Private Equity Reporter based in London, I wrote articles and features about the UK private equity sector and moderated panels at conferences such as Dow Jones’s 2006 European Limited Partners Summit in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2005 I won the British Venture Capital Association’s Journalist of the Year award in the Breaking News category. I.

Bachelor'S Degree, English And American Literature

Second Bachelor'S, Philosophy, Politics, And Economics

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Creative Writing