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About Me

Writing is more than my career—it's my lifeline. My words help me attribute meaning to my life.
The process of writing forces me to plunge deeper inside myself and reach heightened levels of awareness and clarity; to relate to, and forge connections with others; to apply significance, and purpose, to life's events; to extract overwhelming feelings from inside myself, and work through them on paper; my words reveal my trajectory of growth. Writing about my experiences helps me organize my world: Existence itself becomes a cohesive narrative in which events are organized into ascending, climactic and resolving moments. And all my occurrences, varying and contradictory as they may seem, become thematically linked and interconnected, like the differing, yet correlated, chapters of a book.
Since graduating from Indiana University in 2002 with a degree in journalism, I've worked as a Development Associate at the Rockefeller University, a NY-based biomedical research institute, an Editorial Intern at Psychology Today and a freelance writer.
I've written for various print and online publications such as Time Out New York, Psychology Today, Chicken Soup for the Soul Magazine, FOXNews.com, iYogaLife.com and BeautyAddictMag.com to name a few. The genres I've covered range from health and wellness, to beauty and fashion, dating and relationships, adolescent culture and the arts. I served as the New York Editor of Boheme Verite (an online magazine that exposes underground arts & culture) as well as the advice columnist at Fazed.com – an ezine geared towards teens and 20-somethings.
View my personal weblog at: http://mariskris.blogspot.com