a winner of the Frank McCourt Memoir contest, 2016, The Southampton Review

Write and photograph stories about home improvements, environmental changes, important people, town government

A young girl travels with her father from Virginia to Rhode Island after her mother disappears. She falls in love with a piano player at a local club and learns to be a lobster fisherman.https://www.amazon.com/Come-Here-Away-Elizabeth-Laytin/dp/1463503830/ref=sr_1_3?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1484607530&sr=8-3&keywords=come+here+go+away

Award-winning author, a 2016 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize for Black Sugar, published in the Summer/Fall 2016 edition of The Southampton Review

Promoted and organized, start-to-finish, events for the summer, wrote brochures and presentations, conducted fundraising. Managed Perlman concert three summers in a row.

Freelance short and long term projects for non-profit, business to business, publishing and Fortune 500 companies. Copywriting and marketing includes brochures, sales presentations, fundraising, event coordination and managing projects start to finish.Freelance articles for Shelter Island Reporter easthamptonpatch.com and East Hampton Press newspapers

Recent Projects:Direct Mail, Corporate Brochures—Individual consulting projects for Wall Street specialist firm Wagner, Stott, Mercator, Toshiba, IBM, AT&T, and Security USA.Promotion and Event Management for Southampton HospitalWrote materials and managed two silent auction and live auction portions of the two major events of the summer of 2007, raising over $1.2 millionInternational Jewelry Design Guild—Public relations, sponsorship director. Raised over $400,000 for 2000 and 2001 shows. Major editorial placements in trade publications, created ad campaign and bartered all ad placements Petersen Publications, Country Living, House Beautiful, Metropolis, Sports Illustrated for Women—Interim marketing director services for each publication. Repositioned magazines in their respective marketplaces, created sales presentations and ad campaigns, managed budget and staff, developed added-value programs, ran events, analyzed research for media kits, created direct marketing to media planners, ran sales meetings.

Interview industry leaders for the point of view page, write promotional materials to encourage advertisers to support the magazine