Clara Rose ThorntonFounder | Writer | Editor | Broadcaster | Organizer

Dublin, Ireland and New York, New York

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| Overview

- Fifteen years of experience researching for, writing, editing, copyediting, and proofreading various elements of newspaper, magazine, website, social media, and marketing copy; literary manuscripts; and press releases

- Served as editor of the general interest department at Publications International, Ltd., a US trade book publishing house specializing in historical chronicles, Americana, children’s interest, and educational

- Served as managing editor at PINK magazine, US glossy lifestyle and leisure quarterly with six regional editions and one national; as film editor and copyeditor at HonestMag., a Chicago-based print arts and culture biannual; and as social media manager and wine and arts columnist at Southern Vemont Arts & Living, glossy quarterly

- Served as weekly fine arts columnist at Pulitzer-Prize-winning Rutland (Vt., US) Herald print daily for four years

- Brand journalism: clients include Facebook, Harvard; Twitter management: @Ireland (37k followers)

- Radio, podcast, and television broadcasting: clients include RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster; The Irish Times; Dublin Web Fest (Ireland); 100.5 FM Zagreb (Croatia)

- InkBlot Complex Poetry Workshop founder (North America, Europe, Asia); Vice & Verses, All-Ireland Live Poetry, and Billie Holiday: Jazz Legacy event organizer, host (United States, France, Denmark, Croatia, Ireland)

- Dublin/Leinster (Ireland) Slam Poetry Champion 2014/15/16

- Strong academic background in critical and expository writing, film theory, film history, English literature, poetics, and philosophy; proficient in AP and The Chicago Manual of Style; intermediate spoken/written French

| Selected Lectures and Panels

- “Slam Poetry and the Internet,” panel; Stanzas Weekend of Words; Limerick, Ireland; 2016- “Making Sense 2: Poetry and Being Well,” panel; Skibbereen Arts Festival; Skibbereen, Ireland; 2015- Presentation in French on freelance culture journalism; French film and wine focus; University of Zagreb; Zagreb, Croatia; Filozofski Fakultet; 2013- “Corporate vs. Independent: Cross-Examining Media Dissemination”; Compass School; Westminster, Vermont, United States; media literacy special curriculum; 2011- “The Real-World Factors of Freelance Journalism: How to Write For Life and Still Love Yours”; Keene State College; Keene, New Hampshire, United States; Journalism Dept.; 2009

| Selected Interviewees

FilmAng Lee - director, producer; Life of Pi; Taking Woodstock; Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonEdward Norton - director, actor; Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, 25th Hour, Fight Club, American History XElijah Wood - actor; The Trust, Maniac, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Lord of the Rings trilogyKeanu Reeves - director, actor; The Neon Demon; Generation Um; A Scanner Darkly; The Matrix 1, 2, and 3; SpeedMiranda July - director, screenwriter, actor; Portlandia (TV), The Future, Me and You and Everyone We Know

MusicTori Amos - piano-rock singer-songwriter; Unrepentant Geraldines, Gold Dust, American Doll Posse, Under the PinkDeath Cab for Cutie - rock musicians; Kintsugi, Codes and Keys, Plans, We Have The Facts and We’re Voting YesBéla Fleck and the Flecktones - bluegrass fusion musicians; Rocket Science, Left of CoolDead Prez - hip-hop MCs; Information Age, RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta, Let’s Get FreeUNKLE - electronica DJ/producer James Lavelle feat. rotating guests; Where Did the Night Fall, War Stories

Visual ArtsWolf Kahn - New-York-based oil painter and pastelist of naturalist themes; Ameringer McEnery YoheTimothy Greenfield-Sanders - New-York-based portrait photographer specializing in cultural iconsVarujan Boghosian - New-Hampshire-based found-object constructionist; Lori Bookstein Fine ArtChristopher Irion - San-Francisco-based portrait photographer specializing in portable public studios

LiteratureJulia Alvarez - novelist, poet; In the Time of Butterflies (Algonquin Books, 1994)Saul Williams - poet; US (a.) (MTV Books, 2015), The Dead Emcee Scrolls (MTV Books/Pocketbooks, 2006)Luís Alberto Urrea - novelist, poet; The Hummingbird’s Daughter (Little, Brown and Company; 2005)Coleman Barks - Rumi translator, The Essential Rumi (HarperOne, 1995)John Clinch - novelist, Kings of the Earth (Random House, Inc.; 2010), Finn (Random House, Inc.; 2007)

Food and WineDora Correia Simões - executive director; ViniPortugal; Torres Vedras, PortugalJody Richardson - wine director, partner; Niche; Geneva, Illinois, United StatesFred Koehler - president; Lynfred Winery; Roselle, Illinois, United StatesPatricia A. Farrington - CEO; Honora Winery and Vineyard; West Halifax, Vermont, United States

| Education

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, minor in Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003Four-year Illinois General Assembly full scholarship recipient and five-time dean’s list honoree

Publication list, book list, engagement specifics available upon requestjournalism: clararosethornton.contently.com | broadcasts: inkblotcomplex.co/broadcasts

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