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 Erika-Marie
S. Geiss
is a freelance writer, editor and
author. She
is also an art historian. Geiss has a B.A.
in developmental psychology
from Brandeis University and an M.A. in
art and architectural
history from Tufts University.
Geiss runs Red Pencil Editing Services, a company
that she started in 2001. Her writing and editing
career began in
conjunction with her art historical career. Between 1997 and
2000 she was a Barbara
Fish Lee and Muriel G. S. Lewis Fellow at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
where she worked on the exhibition
catalogs for Monet and the
Twentieth
Century, Van
Gogh: Face to Face and Monet, Renoir and the
Impressionist Landscape
among other publications for the
Department of the Art of Europe. Just prior
to leaving the MFA, Boston in 2000 to take the position of Director of
Education at the
Rose Art Museum at her alma mater, she was a contributing author to the
exhibition
catalog produced for the North American tour of Monet, Renoir and the
Impressionist Landscape. Geiss was also a
visiting instructor in the Fine Arts Department at the University of
New
Hampshire, Durham where she taught an undergraduate course: Intro to
Art History from Antiquity to the Present and an upper-level
undergraduate seminar on Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
Born in New York, Geiss spent most of her childhood and early adult
years
living in the Boston area, until 2003, when she moved to Michigan. She
continued to write
and edit, and promoted Red Pencil Editing Services into an Internet
company and was also an independant contractor for a firm specializing
in creative talent, where she worked in two prominent local advertising
agencies editing ad copy for the automotive industry. In October 2003
she joined the curatorial staff of Detroit's Charles H. Wright
Museum of African American History where she was the curatorial liaison
for And Still
We Rise: Our Journey through
African American History, the museum's core,
permanent exhibition and was instrumental in acquiring object for the
permanent collection and securing loans for the exhibition from other
institutions world-wide. Geiss left the Charles H. Wright in mid 2005
at the conclusion of the project and shortly before she and her husband
started their family.
In 2004 Geiss wrote The Passion
of Christ (Publications International) a book
about Renaissance and
Baroque works of art depicting the last 12 hours of Jesus' life. In
addition to
art historical topics, Geiss writes about current events, parenting,
WAHM-related and other issues. Her publication credits include articles
in Speak2Me
magazine, Inkwell
Newswatch (IN), The News Herald, Mothering and
World
Energy Monthly Review for
which she has been a copy editor and occasional freelance writer since
December 2006. In October 2008, she became a contributing editor for
the publication. She is also a copy editor for World
Energy Magazine, is a former contributing
blogger at
babiesonline, and
was a guest blogger at Family Resource. Geiss is also a
featured work-at-home expert
at bizymoms.com
and the
publisher and
editor-in-chief of theWAHMmagazine,
the first and only content-driven digital magazine for work-at-home
parents. (The magazine is currently in on hiatus as it goes through a
restructuring and transitioning phase and as the
Geisses prepare for the arrival of their second child in late spring
2009.)
Geiss maintains
her own personal blog, Musings
from the
Mitten where one can read her more extemporaneous work,
and her most recent work includes, The
Right Words for any
Occasion (West Side Publishing/Publications
International, fall 2008), a contributing author of Green Cleaning
(Publications Int'l, January 2009), and has the essay "A Labor of Love"
appearing in
A Cup of Comfort for New Mothers
(Adams Media, March 2009) an anthology
of birth stories celebrating motherhood and the miracle of life. Since
January 2008, Geiss has been the host of the Cyber Savvy
Show at Passionate
Internet Voices Talk Radio. (The show is also currently on hiatus in
anticipation of Geiss's second child.)
Geiss is a member of the Association of Art Editors (AAE), the
Freelancers
Union International, the International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG),
the
Women's eCommerce Association International (WECAI), FolioMediaPro and
the Detroit Literary Network.
As a non-fiction
author,
Ms. Geiss is represented by Robert
Diforio/D4EO Literary Agency. Active in local politics,
she is a former
Commissioner on the Steering Committee for the Master Plan for the City
of
Taylor and is on the advisory board to the Friends of the Arts an arm
of the Taylor Cultural Arts Council.
She and
her husband Doug, are raising their young family in the suburbs of
Detroit.
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