About Me
I'm a New York City native who has lived in Los Angeles for nine years; my home office these days is a Studio City garden apartment where a cat and a guitarist husband keep me company. In 1998, I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Binghamton. I went back to school in my thirties and got a master's degree in urban planning from the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning and Development (now the Price School). I have worked as a journalist and critic; copy editor; sales & marketing assistant who whipped up press releases and blurbs; freelance proofreader for legal, financial, and advertising businesses; and most recently as a transcriptionist specializing in music and popular culture. Aside from those two (keen) interests, my knowledge base extends to cooking and dining, design and style, public policy and urban affairs, geography, language, social justice, and the history of countercultures and the avant-garde. I thrive on research, analysis, historical context, and well-argued theory, and I do try to avoid intellectual laziness, magical thinking, and sky-is-falling clickbait hysteria. I'm not ready or willing to give up the Oxford comma (unless your style guide tells me to).
Please get in touch through the Contact page to work out current availability and rates. I will be adding a more detailed menu of services here soon, as well as a pricing breakdown and perhaps a checkout cart.
Writing and back-of-the-envelope ideas: jodybethlafosse.com
