JAY EDIDIN [email protected]

SKILLS: • Editing, project management, and creative acquisition across a range of print and digital media; with a focus on and genre fiction.

• Writing (creative, critical, journalistic, and copy)

• Content development, creation, and editing in text, video, audio, graphics, and multimedia/transmedia.

• Co-host and creator of hit weekly podcast Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men (~20K listeners) and video series Jay & Miles Review the X-Men.

• Able to build and manage diverse, vibrant, and civil digital communities across a variety of social platforms, including Twitter, Tumblr, Discord, Wordpress, and others.

• Spearheaded multiple viral social media campaigns, including community- building, activism, and humor/satire.

• Excellent organizational, administrative and communication skills; innovative, flexible, and detail-oriented; able to manage high-paced and irregular schedules without compromising quality.

• Substantial knowledge of and contact bases in pop entertainment and media, particularly comics.

• ComicBook.com's 2017 Person of the Year

• Once got a Valve project out the door on schedule.

• Exists canonically within the Marvel Universe.

EDUCATION Warren Wilson College (2000-2004) B.A. Creative Writing B.A. English Literature, with honors

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • Creator, Host, & Jack of All Trades (2014-Present) at Jay & Miles X- Plain the X-Men Smash-hit (20k+ listeners) critically acclaimed podcast on the continuity and creative and cultural history of comics' greatest superhero soap opera; and associated features including articles, interviews, and ongoing video series. Management of multiple social media accounts, community building and management, event coordination, outreach, and business management.

• Freelance Writer & Content Creator (2007-Present) Written and video reporting and op-ed for magazines and websites including BuzzFeed, SyFy Wire, Comics Alliance, Wired.com, Wired Magazine, io9, Playboy.com, MEL Magazine, Apex, The Book Smugglers Almanac, and Gulf Coast; mostly on comics, art, and popular culture; as well as fiction, creative nonfiction, and comics for publications including Love Is Love, Womanthology: Space, Sleep of Reason, Adventure Time, and Chicks Dig Comics.

• Arts Calendar Editor (2017-2018) at Brooklyn Paper Maintenance, curation, and data entry for ongoing community arts calendar.

• Staff Writer (2013-2014) on The Digits Collaborative writing and development on prospective children's television series based on popular app and web series.

• Staff Writer /Affiliated Freelancer (2013-2015) at Wired.com Reporting and op. ed.; focus on arts, pop culture, and science.

• Freelance Editor & Consultant (2009-Present) Comics publishing and retail, prose fiction and nonfiction, tabletop role- playing games, immersive theater, film, diversity and accessibility; specializing in hybrid and transmedia storytelling.

• Associate Editor (2009-February 2013) at Creative editing and project management at every stage of the publishing process, from acquisition, to content development, to bureaucracy, to design and production, to marketing and public relations; for publications including graphic novels, prose novels, nonfiction, comics series, anthologies (comics and prose), archival reprints and collections, and art books. Spearheaded redevelopment and rebranding of prose fiction line, and participated in mentoring, supervision, and community outreach.

• Assistant Editor (2006-2009) at Dark Horse Comics

• Director (2004-2006) of Warren Wilson College Writing Center

SPEAKING • Panelist and Featured Speaker (2008-present) at TEDxHarvardCollege; conventions including Emerald City Comicon, New York Comicon, Stumptown Comics Fest, FlameCon, and GeekGirlCon; and various podcasts and conferences; on topics including intersectional diversity in geek culture, editing, activism in the arts, building positive digital communities, geek feminism, professional tools for self-publishers, scientific and media literacy, and mythic fiction.

• Lecturer & Academic Mentor (2009-present) on craft and history of comics, craft annotation, plot structure, creative nonfiction, and professional practices; at colleges and secondary schools.

OTHER • Consultant and Comic-Book Slinger at Books With Pictures, a revolutionary award-winning comics shop focused on intersectional diversity and accessibility.

• Operations Manager (2013-2014) and V.I.P. Liaison (2011-2012) of Stumptown Comics Fest.

• Coordinator of PetesFest, an Adventures of Pete & Pete reunion show.

• Volunteer Advocate (2000-2004) at Our V.O.I.C.E., a rape-crisis and survivor-support center.

• Office, Research, and Outreach Volunteer (2007-2016) at Basic Rights Oregon, a LGBTQIA advocacy organization.

• Publisher of zines and independent media.

• Social-Media Weirdo at Twitter (@RaeBeta) and Tumblr (postcardsfromspace.tumblr.com)

• Rocketship Jungle Gym Aficionado at a playground near you. Selected Editorial Projects: • Finder, by Carla Speed McNeil • The Adventures of Superhero Girl, by Faith Erin Hicks • Sorcery 101 and related works, by Kel McDonald • Pwned, by Matt Vancil • The Last Dragon, by Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay • Alabaster, by Caitlín R. Kiernan, , et. al. • The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, by Christopher Hastings • Too Much Coffee Man, by Shannon Wheeler • Shinjuku, by Yoshitaka Amano and Mink • Evelyn, Evelyn, by Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley, and Cynthia von Buehler • Axe Cop, by Malachai and Ethan Nicolle • Hellboy: The Companion, by various • The Last of Us: American Dreams • Valve Presents: The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories

Selected Publications (Writer): • BuzzFeed • SyFy Wire • WIRED Magazine • Wired.com • MEL Magazine • Love Is Love • Adventure Time • Chicks Dig Comics • Gulf Coast Magazine • Hellboy: The Companion • Comics Alliance • io9 • Sequential Tart • Stumptown Underground • Girl-Wonder.org • Sleep of Reason

Suitably impressive clips and references available on request.