A resume of sorts
(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)
  • Miss Black Teenage World of Missouri, 1980
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