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OUR CONTRIBUTORS DAVID PORTER A proud native son of New Jersey, David A. Porter is a freelance writer, journalist, and editor. A graduate of Rutgers University, he earned an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. David provides content to a number of clients in New York and abroad, including advertising copy, blog posts, brochures, by-lined articles, case studies, op-eds, press releases, proposals, speeches and website text; he also edits full-length works by academics and novelists. David is working on his first collection of short stories, Protracted Adolescence, a collection of poems, Ghost Season, and a non-fiction book about music, 20,000 Things I Love. He lives on the Upper West Side with his wife, interior designer Antigone Michaelides, and his son, Leontios, a rambunctious yet unbearably adorable second-grader. GRETCHEN KELLY Gretchen Kelly has been to over 80 countries in a 15-plus year career as a travel writer. She became a travel writer after working as a publicist for David Bowie. She and Bowie would talk about travel and at one point Bowie (who told her he “loved her way with words”) encouraged her to start a career as a travel writer. She quit her job that week and has since specialized in visiting places connected with films and TV shows. “My first movie-related travel journey was to Jordan in the places where Lawrence of Arabia was filmed,” Kelly remembers. “I took the famed soundtrack with me on a Walkman and played it while I rode a camel through Wadi Rumm.” Kelly lives in Queens, NY (near her writing partner Michael Alpiner who also writes for New York Lifestyles) but is considering traveling with the Remote Year program so she can file her stories from a pool in Bali. JENNY PETERS Jenny Peters has covered the entertainment, lifestyle and travel worlds as a freelance journalist for many years. Her credits include writing on film, celebrities, and lifestyle for USA Today, AARP.com, Variety, New York Magazine, to name a few. She is the former editor-in-chief of Brentwood/Distinctive Living magazines and held the same post for Scene magazine. She is a founding and voting member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, who present the Critics’ Choice Awards every January honoring the previous year’s finest in cinematic achievement. Her favorite places to be: sipping wine in the middle of a vineyard or simply strolling the streets and soaking in the atmosphere of one of the world’s great cities.
Vol. 4 #2 | March 2018 President / Publisher BILL MASON Editor-in-Chief Patricia Canole
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Entertainment Editors Jenny Peters, Lori Simmons Zelenko
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Chief Photographer Annie Watt Contributing Writers Shari Bilt Boockvar, Chloe Carmichael, Ph.D., Scott Cuollo, Lee Gabay Dr. Peter Kalellis, Gretchen Kelly, Denise Mercedes, Ellis Nassour Dr. Mazen Natour, Ted Owen, Darren Paltrowitz, Jeannie Pawlowski David Porter, Anne Raso, Charlotte St. Martin, Gerrie Summers Jeff & Stephanie Sylva, Susan Traub, Nadine Wynn, Stacey Zable Executive Vice President of Sales LYLE SELTZER Sales Bill Mason Sr. - Director of New Business Development Brett Caldwell - Director of Integrated Sales and Marketing Gary Albanese - Senior Sales Director of NYC John Miller - Director of Sales - Travel Michael Stulmaker - Director of Sales - Real Estate Director of Operations Kurt Nesheim
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