Curriculum vitae

Work history · Public relations

Science Applications International Corporation (Las Vegas), Senior Writer · 1993–2001

• Created fact sheets, brochures, and a newsletter for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain High-Level Waste and Spent Fuel Repository Project.
• Stewarded scientists and engineers through product management.

The University of Southern California, Senior Science Writer · 1988–1991

• Reported on academic affairs for weekly university Transcript while compiling two features per month for Trojan Family monthly magazine.
• Received dozens of written accolades from principals as well as university administration.
• Successfully pitched articles from Trojan Family to the LA Times (succeeded in running one on the cover of the Sunday Magazine).

The Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), Senior Writer · 1984–1986

• Reported on institute research and affairs for the in-house newsletter and bi-monthly magazine.
• Wrote an award-winning 50th anniversary history of the institute.

Work history · Journalism

The Jerusalem Report, Senior Writer, Los Angeles · 1991–2001

• Covered Israeli and Jewish-related news for Israel’s premier English-language newsmagazine.
• Specialized in entertainment reporting and celebrity profiles.

The Los Angeles Jewish Journal, Founding Writer · 1987–1988

• Helped weekly newspaper find footing as the city’s independent paper of record.
• Twenty years later, recruited as Senior Reporter-at-Large, a position held for a year until exit to semi-retirement as a freelance journalist.

Cinefantastique Magazine, West Coast Bureau Chief · 1986–1993

• Covered film and television production for genre monthly designated by the Los Angeles Times, in a nod to its muckraking capacity, as “The Little Magazine That Could.”
• Broke dozens of stories about behind-the-scenes studio machinations.
• Sated readers’ fascination with exigencies of special effects and other facets of production.

Present Tense, Los Angeles Correspondent · c. 1986/87–1990

Reported for the American Jewish Committee’s magazine of world Jewish affairs (1973–1990), edited by Murray Polner. Contributions include “Los Angeles: Beverly Hills Battleground,” “They Love America,” and “Walking Through the Valley” (a profile of Rabbi Harold Schulweis).

The Jerusalem Post (Israel), Night Desk Subeditor, Reporter · 1984–1986

• As line editor, helped put paper to bed weeknights.
• Worked weekends as an investigative reporter.

Freelance journalism

Thirty-five years’ experience as a contributing writer to Wired, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Premiere, Entertainment Weekly, Sci-Fi Magazine, Hadassah Magazine, The Times of Israel, Present Tense, U.S. Army Magazine, The IDF Journal, The Montreal Gazette, The Toronto Star, The Vancouver Star, Up Here Magazine (Yellowknife, NWT), Yedioth Ahronoth (Isr.) and Monitin Magazine (Isr.).

Publishing

Zion’s Fiction Enterprises, Manager & Co-Editor · 2014–2021

• Conceived and initiated two volumes of English-language Israeli science fiction, horror, and fantasy: Zion’s Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Fiction (Mandel-Villar, 2018), and More Zion’s Fiction: Wondrous Tales from the Israeli Imagination (ZF Partners, 2021).
• Curated and helped translate 32 short stories and novellas from a body of 500+ published-and-commissioned stories in Hebrew.
• Co-wrote universally acclaimed scholarly introduction and produced author introductions.
• Commissioned cover art and illustrations for each story.
• Successfully marketed the first book on various digital and traditional platforms.

Education

B.A., Honors, Concordia University, Montreal, 1977.

Prizes & awards

• First Canadian Northern Lights Award for Excellence in Travel Writing (1997, Wired Magazine, “The Call of the Wired”).
• Three Brandeis University Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
• Three Las Vegas Association for Business Communication Bronze Quill awards.

Books & publications

• Zion’s Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Fiction (Mandel-Vilar, 2018).
• America Celebrates Israel — 50 Years: An Eyewitness Account (The Los Angeles Jewish Federation, April 1998).
• “Los Angeles: Beverly Hills Battleground,” Present Tense, vol. 16, no. 1, November–December 1988 (begins p. 16).
• “They Love America,” Present Tense, vol. 16, no. 3, March–April 1989, pp. 26–34.
• “Walking Through the Valley,” Present Tense, vol. 16, no. 5, July–August 1989 (begins p. 23).
• “Harold Schulweis,” originally published in Present Tense; reprinted in Jewish Profiles: Great Jewish Personalities and Institutions of the Twentieth Century, ed. Murray Polner (Jason Aronson, 1991), pp. 290–304.
• “Science Fiction and Fantasy, Jewish and Israeli,” Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd ed.), ed. Michael Berenbaum (Thomson Gale, 1999, vol. 18, pp. 207–231).
• “Israel,” The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (2nd ed.), eds. John Clute and Peter Nicholls (Orbit, 1993), pp. 629–630.