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Emilie Stigliani
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Writer, Freelance
Sacramento
Beats
Biography
I was born a listener. I am American but spent the early part of my childhood in Vienna, Austria. My family relocated from Washington, D.C., in 1986 for my father's work in environmental science. My parents sent me to kindergarten when I turned three. I learned German within a few months by listening to my classmates. Adult conversations fascinated me too. My father often brought other scientists home for supper. I would stay at the table after the dishes were cleared, listening to their discussions on soil chemistry and acid rain. I wanted to understand. As I grew older, I craved experience. I elected to follow a nontraditional path. After high school, I volunteered to teach with AmeriCorps in inner-city Boston. I began to find my voice as a teacher and to ply those words to the practice of writing. I studied Spanish and English in college and then moved to New York City to teach English to foreigners and to write. I moved to upstate New York to milk cows and to write more. I started a master’s program in English literature at Middlebury College in Vermont. There, among the Green Mountains that Robert Frost visited for 40 summers, I read his poetry and that of many others. I wrote poems. I learned to economize my words. When I switched gears to pursue a master's in journalism at the University of Missouri, I carried that economy with me. Curiosity drives my journalism. I am always learning. I am equally interested in issues of social and environmental justice. I pore through documents for in-depth stories on environment and energy issues. I draw on my training in investigative techniques, computer-assisted reporting, visual storytelling and narrative writing. I also enjoy writing features about poets, cowboys and men who play Santa Claus. I have won several awards for my work, including a prize for environmental reporting from the Missouri Press Association and a fellowship from the Missouri School of Journalism. I have had the opportunity to return to Europe as a journalist at the invitation of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States. I now work as an editor at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont. I also write for the Free Press.
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Freelance
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States