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(c) 2007 Stefanie Worth
Writing-Related Work Experience
Non-profit marketing communications management including directing brand identity work for United Way
Editorial support for the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau, Cranbrook Educational Community and others
Community liaison work for the Detroit Street Law Program and Detroit City Council
Editor/co-editor and columnist for the Michigan Chronicle (favorite job!)
Reporter/anchor for WJLB-FM radio Detroit, Michigan, (most fun job!); KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri (NBC affiliate/formerly ABC, ); and KBIA-FM, National Public Radio affiliate in Columbia, Missouri.
Writing-Related Honors & Awards
“Inkling,” (now “Where Souls Collide”) finalist, Coeur de Louisiane’s 2005 Romancing the Tome Contest
“Romance,” awarded first place in the 1993 Paul Laurence Dunbar poetry contest sponsored by the Detroit Writers Guild.
“Milagro” (poetry) featured in the Metro Times 1992 annual Summer Fiction Issue.
Best Women's Section, 1991 and 1992 by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) for Michigan Chronicle’s Compositions section.
Third place, Best Feature category, 1991 by NNPA for “Lula Belle Stewart Center: Making a Way for Teen Moms to Succeed.” (Michigan Chronicle)
Freelance work
“Finding New Ways: Urban Communities Adopt Aggressive Approaches to Urgent Problems,” Upscale magazine, April 1994
“African-Oriented Churches: New Hope for Young Black Males,” Class magazine, Feb.1993
“Using College Experiences in the Workplace,” Black Excellence magazine, March/April 1993
“Soothing Spirits,” Upscale magazine's Positively You column, Nov. 1993
“With a Hit Single and Album, Nayobe Seems Headed for Top,” Michigan Chronicle
“The Best is Yet to Come,” Michigan Chronicle Kaleidoscope column, Nov. 4-10, 1992
“Bum Rap,” Michigan Chronicle Up Front column, Jan 9-15, 1991
“Ain't No Shame in My Game,” Metro Times Diversions column (record review), Jan. 16-22, 1991
“Promise Me,” Metro Times Diversions column (record review), Nov. 7-13, 1990
Other activities
Member Romance Writers of America (RWA)
Member, Sisters in Crime (SinC)
Member, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (Epsilon Psi Chapter, Spring 1983)
Mizzou Golden Girl, University of Missouri-Columbia (1982-1984)