Résumé

JOYCE MARCEL
443 Spaulding Hill Road
E. Dummerston, VT 05346
802 254-4784
joycemarcel.com

Joyce Marcel is an award-winning freelance journalist and columnist with more than three decades of experience covering New England news, fine arts, personalities, music, theater, politics, and business.

NEWS & FEATURES

Vermont Business Magazine
1991 — Present
• Writer of the cover stories for this monthly publication
• Twice, in 2000 and 2017, winner of the Gold Award from the Alliance of Area Business Publications for business magazine profile writing.

The Boston Globe and The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
1997 — 2000
• Covered western New England

Springfield (MA) Union-News/Sunday Republican
1994 — 1999
• Music critic. Wrote feature stories, interviewed musicians and celebrities and reviewed concerts in a wide area covering Hartford, New Haven, Boston, Springfield and Western Massachusetts.
• From 1996 to 1998, my column “Culture Shock” led the Sunday Republican‘s Leisure section.

Brattleboro (VT) Reformer
1990 — 2006
• Metro writer (1990 — 1994)
• Op-ed columnist (1992 — 2006)

OCCASIONAL PIECES
1994 — Present
• The Commons (Brattleboro, VT); Southern Vermont Arts & Living Magazine; Vermont Life; Vermont Magazine; online for the first daily newspaper on the Web, the now-defunct American Reporter; Progressive Populist; and as far afield as Feminina Magazine in South Africa and The Arab News in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

TRAVEL JOURNALISM
1996 — 2002
• The Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, Orlando Sentinel, Newsday, Providence (RI) Journal, and Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA)

SELF-PUBLISHING
2006
• Self-published a successful collection of my columns, A Thousand Words or Less: Favorite Columns 1996-2005.

CREATIVE WRITING
• Published a short story, “Grave Robber: A Love Story,” in the magazine Creative Non-Fiction (Summer 2012); it was later anthologized in a book called True Crime published by the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.

AWARDS
• Twice, in 2000 and 2017, winner of the Gold Award from the Alliance of Area Business Publications for business magazine profile writing.
• Multiple awards from the Vermont Press Association
• Multiple awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association

TEACHING
2001 — 2003
University Of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Taught Journalism at the Division of Continuing Education

EDUCATION
• B. A. from Brooklyn College in New York
• Masters in International Administration from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT

References will be provided upon request.