Nancy Fowler
Creative Nonfiction Writer/Journalist
Essayist and MFA in Writing candidate with aspirations of becoming a memoirist following a decades-long career as an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning journalist working in digital, print, radio and television.
Experience
ESSAYIST
2019-present
My creative nonfiction work explores family dynamics, LGBTQ+ life, grief and aging, among other topics. This dovetails with my focus as a journalist on social justice, health/mental health, cultural trends the arts.
FREELANCE JOURNALIST, 1996-present
Generate ideas and write for a variety of clients which have included Maryville Magazine, Washington University Magazine, Catholic Health World, WebMD.com, CNN.com, China Daily USA and Health Magazine
ARTS AND CULTURE REPORTER
St. Louis Public Radio
December 2013-September 2019
Produced radio and digital stories about people in the visual/performing arts in the St. Louis area, with an emphasis on the intersection of creativity and underrepresented populations. Produced and co-hosted the Cut & Paste arts and culture podcast for three years
ARTS REPORTER
St. Louis Beacon
January 2011-December 2013
Discovered, reported and wrote about trends, issues and people in the performing/visual arts
INTERIM NEWS DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF LAW/BROWN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Washington University in St. Louis Public Affairs, June-August 2010
Marketed the WUSTL brand by placing professors in national and local media and contributed regularly to WUSTL news service by writing stories/press releases related to latest research by professors
EDITOR of local LGBTQ newspaper
Vital VOICE newspaper, St. Louis, Missouri 2000-2007
Transformed the Vital VOICE into a locally essential, nationally recognized publication, and represented the Vital VOICE in television and radio interviews, on panels and in other promotional events
Education
Awards/Fellowships
References are available upon request.
314.280.6689 / NMFowlerSTL@gmail.com
Creative Nonfiction Writer/Journalist
Essayist and MFA in Writing candidate with aspirations of becoming a memoirist following a decades-long career as an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning journalist working in digital, print, radio and television.
Experience
ESSAYIST
2019-present
My creative nonfiction work explores family dynamics, LGBTQ+ life, grief and aging, among other topics. This dovetails with my focus as a journalist on social justice, health/mental health, cultural trends the arts.
FREELANCE JOURNALIST, 1996-present
Generate ideas and write for a variety of clients which have included Maryville Magazine, Washington University Magazine, Catholic Health World, WebMD.com, CNN.com, China Daily USA and Health Magazine
ARTS AND CULTURE REPORTER
St. Louis Public Radio
December 2013-September 2019
Produced radio and digital stories about people in the visual/performing arts in the St. Louis area, with an emphasis on the intersection of creativity and underrepresented populations. Produced and co-hosted the Cut & Paste arts and culture podcast for three years
ARTS REPORTER
St. Louis Beacon
January 2011-December 2013
Discovered, reported and wrote about trends, issues and people in the performing/visual arts
INTERIM NEWS DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF LAW/BROWN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Washington University in St. Louis Public Affairs, June-August 2010
Marketed the WUSTL brand by placing professors in national and local media and contributed regularly to WUSTL news service by writing stories/press releases related to latest research by professors
EDITOR of local LGBTQ newspaper
Vital VOICE newspaper, St. Louis, Missouri 2000-2007
Transformed the Vital VOICE into a locally essential, nationally recognized publication, and represented the Vital VOICE in television and radio interviews, on panels and in other promotional events
Education
- BA in Journalism, University of Alabama-Birmingham
- MFA in Writing Candidate with emphasis on Creative Nonfiction, Lindenwood University
Awards/Fellowships
- Winner, Daisy Pettles Writers Residency for hybrid memoir/nonfiction book proposal about baby boomers grieving no grandchildren as a result of the declining birth rate
- Runner-up, Wow! Women on Writing contest for 'The Barbie Scale,' a personal essay on women and weight
- Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for 'Home Movies Offer Rare Glimpse of Gay Life in St. Louis in 1945,' St. Louis Public Radio
- Local Emmy award for Outstanding Late News, WXYZ-TV Detroit
- Education Writers Association award for 'Making the Grade' news series, WXYZ-TV Detroit
- Pride St. Louis Felton T. Day Community Service for journalism supporting the LGBTQ community, St. Louis
- St. Louis Press Club fellowship for 'Ready--or not? Can St. Louis cope with catastrophe?' series on disaster preparedness published by the STLBeacon.org
- Scholarship for the Wake Forest University Addiction Studies Program for Journalists workshop in conjunction with the College on the Problems of Drug Dependence
- USC Annenberg’s NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater fellowship
References are available upon request.
314.280.6689 / NMFowlerSTL@gmail.com
