Curriculum Vitae		Amanda Castleman is an award-winning freelance journalist, specializing in travel, the environment and women’s issues. Her work has appeared in AOL, MSNBC.com, Outside, Sport Diver, Wired, Salon, The International Herald Tribune and the UK’s Daily Mail, Sunday Express and on the BBC. She has also worked as an editor, photographer, web and graphic designer.
Experience		Freelance Journalism, Seattle, America (August 2004 to present) Publications include AOL, MSNBC, Outside, Hemispheres, The Guardian, Yahoo! News, The UK's Sunday Express and Alaska Airlines Magazine. Book credits include Frommer's, Michelin, National Geographic, a travel-writing textbook and Greece, A Love Story. Regular Contributor gigs: Sport Diver, travelgirl, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New Jersey Life, MSN Daily Access, Moviemaker Magazine, and Road and Travel. Writing and New Media Instructor: Writers.com, TravelWritingClass.com and the Richard Hugo House. Launch editor of TripSketch.com. Proofing: Seattle Bride, Knowledge Leader and Wanderlust & Lipstick. Corporate clients: American Express, Andria Mitsakos PR, GEICO Direct (via Totem), Content Works, Jones Advertising, 10Best, Thomas Cook and The Washington Visitor’s Guide. Freelance Journalism, Greece, Cyprus, the UK and US (October 2002 to August 2004) Travel Writing Instructor: www.writers.com. Regular Contributor: Road and Travel and The Athens News. Clients included The Mail on Sunday, Wired News, The Rough Guide to Italy and Time Out's Athens Guide. American Academy in Rome, Italy (September 2000 to August 2002) Visiting Writer. Freelance Journalist for the International Herald Tribune's Italy Daily, Wired and the UK’s Daily Mail, among others. I began a novel, Fishing for Saints, and produced Aristophanes' Clouds. Oxford Mail and The Oxford Times, Oxford, England (September 99 to August 2000) Feature Writer and Sub-Editor. Although primarily a reporter – specializing in travel, books, IT, human interest and the environment – I also proofread and designed pages. Oxbow Books, Oxford, England (September 98 to September 99) Web and Graphic Designer. Duties included design and maintenance of a commercial web site, book publicity, cover design, typesetting and proofing for an independent publisher. Freelance Editing and Design, Oxfordshire, England (October 97 to September 98) Graphic Designer: Past Times and Woolacott Davidson Advertising Agency. Assistant: Oxford University Press, ELT department. Copyeditor: various theses. The Gist Magazine Group, Oxford, England (November 96 to October 97) Founding Editor. I launched four British commercial monthly titles (circulation 40,000). Duties included commissioning, DTP, supervising pre-press and staff management. The Daily, University of Washington, Seattle, America (September 93 to September 96) Various positions including Editor-in-Chief and News Editor. Duties included reporting, photography, subbing, editing and DTP. As Editor, I trained new employees and directed a 60-person staff (circulation 18,000). Savage Love Live, Seattle, America (September 94 to September 96) Part-time Researcher. I prepared background for pundit Dan Savage’s weekly radio program.
Academy Expatter.com Gist Magazine Oxbow Books Oxford Mail UW Daily
Education		University of Washington, Seattle, America BA in Latin with a classical studies minor
Awards		Lowell Thomas (travel writing's ersatz Pulitzer) Bronze in Adventure Writing 2007 Columbia Scholastic Press Association – Golden Circle Awards First Place In-depth News/Feature Writing Third Place Feature Photography First Place News Publication Single Subject Presentation First Place Newspaper Publication Photo Layout Pacemaker Award (for top five student newspapers in America) First-place In-depth Reporting, Society of Professional Journalists, West Coast Most Hated Liberal on Campus, University of Washington Conservative Club
Books		Author, Vancouver Island chapter: Frommer's Best Hiking Trips in British Columbia (Frommer's 2009) Copyeditor: Traveling with Kids (Wanderlust and Lipstick 2009) Updater: Green Guide Rome (Michelin 2007) Contributor: Journeys of a Lifetime (National Geographic 2007) Contributor: Greece, A Love Story (Seal Press 2007) Contributor: Single State of the Union (Seal Press 2007) Contributor: Frommer's Dream Vacations (Frommer's 2007) Author: Thomas Cook's Greek phrasebook (Thomas Cook 2007) Copyeditor: Thomas Cook's phrasebook series (Thomas Cook 2007) Updater: Green Guide Sicily (Michelin 2007) Copyeditor: Italian PhraseFinder & Dictionary (Frommer's 2006) Updater: Green Guide, Italy (Michelin 2005) Contributor: Travel Writing Textbook (Leromi Publishing 2005) Contributor: Italy, A Love Story (Seal Press 2005) Contributor: Travel Writing Textbook (Leromi Publishing 2005) Updater: Rough Guide Italy (Rough Guides 2005) Editor: Greece, Garden of the Gods (Athens News 2004) Copyeditor and typesetter: Where to Eat and Stay in France (Dorling Kindersley 2004) Contributor: Time Out Athens (Time Out 2003) Contributor: Rome in Detail (Rizzoli 2003) Contributor: Automotive Association Key to Rome (AA 2003)
Freelance		Outside, The International Herald Tribune's Italy Daily, Wired Magazine, Wired News, Athens News,MSNBC, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Express, Sport Diver, Scuba Diving, Alaska Airlines Magazine, New Jersey Life, Salon Magazine, Michelin, Frommer's, Time Out, Rough Guide, MSN Underwire, BBC Thames Valley FM, Cotswold Life, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Bride, AOL Travel, Northwest Dive News, Wanderlust and Lipstick, travelgirl, Thomas Cook phrasebooks, Wanderlust and Lipstick, Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness, Single State of the Union, Greece A Love Story, Italy A Love Story, Rome in Detail, Bank Travel Management, Corriere della Sera, The International Examiner, MSN Daily Access, AmEx's Square, GEICO Direct, The Washington State Visitors Guide, AA Guide to Rome, In These Times, Moviemaker, Travel Age West, International Living, Trip, Living Abroad, Intelliguides, Z-Guides, Road and Travel, Adbusters, Gloucester Echo, Western Daily Press, Nervy Girl, Bitch, Northwest Travel, Aspen Daily News, Outdoor West, Business and Marketing Management, Wanted in Rome, Continental Drift, Destinworld, eMedia, Red Group, Efemera, Fresh Direction
Skills		Packages: CS4 (Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Illustrator), InDesign, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, various databases Internet: web-site architecture, construction and maintenance, including SEO, HTML, CSS, tweaking basic Java script and Drupal nodes, UI flows, keywording, integrating CMS Graphics: photography (darkroom and electronic printing); shooting and editing high-definition video; experience with packaging, book covers, website branding, newspaper and magazine design, and outputting digital files for color repro Languages: BA in Latin, competent Italian, fading German and Ancient Greek Diving: Advanced open-water and drysuit certification
Other Clouds NOLS Plimoth		Museum interpreter at Plimoth Plantation (1984-6) Child actress, American Dairy Association commercial (1986) Participant in John Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (1987-90) Lifeguard and swimming instructor, YMCA (1989-93) Assistant wilderness guide, Tired Dog Tours (1992-93) Graduate of Cascades Mountaineering Course, NOLS (1993) English tutor to a disabled university student (1995-96) Co-author of the play Il Cowboy di Natale (Rome, 2000) Producer of Aristophanes’ Clouds for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2000 Producer for the revival of Clouds in Rome (2001) Member: National Union of Journalists, International Freelance Chapter
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