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Melissa Giannini writes and edits in Brooklyn, NY. She used to write and edit in Detroit, MI, where she was the staff music writer at Metro Times, and before that, senior editor at Real Detroit Weekly. She was voted Best Metro Times Writer in a reader’s poll. This is why she seems to write about stuff happening in Detroit a lot, even though she lives in Brooklyn. She also was the publisher/editor of a small-run and short-lived zine called Box.
Her writing about music, art, film, books, food, DIY culture, social justice, and community development has also appeared in Spin, Village Voice, Venus, DIW, All Music Guide, Model D, Baltimore City Paper, Orlando Weekly, Detroit Free Press, and Royal Oak Review. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University, and she completed a yearlong Americorps VISTA program in Chicago in 2002.
She’s a copy editor for marthastewart.com, and has also copy edited for amNewYork, The Village Voice, Spin, Architectural Record, The Nation, Bidoun and Paper Monument. In her free time, she teaches writing workshops for kids and sells superhero supplies at 826 NYC. At this time she also is working on a project that involves rereading every e-mail she received in 2001, but she welcomes distractions of a varied sort, including but not limited to: project ideas; freelance writing assignments; cupcake, cookie and Bundt cake recipes; and links to photographs and/or videos of colossal squids.
This Web site presents a selection of her published work and random yet well-researched thoughts. Nothing that appears on this site may be excerpted, quoted or otherwise used without the express written permission of the author.
