Resume - Published Works - Other

My writing encompasses suspense novels, humorous essays, short stories, character profiles, plays, magazine articles, marketing pieces on healthcare and wellness, colleges, and non-profits; visual art; pitch letters; proposals; poetry; and editing services. Contact: joan.reid@yahoo.com

Upsala College BA - Psychology; English
Fairleigh Dickinson University - Education (post graduate)

Assistant Editor - Prentice Hall
Associate Director - Public Relations: Pascack Valley Hospital, NJ
Director - Public Relations: American Red Cross - Bergen/Hudson - 2001-2005
Features Editor - Writer - Nyack Villager Magazine 2005-2007
Nyack College 2007 - 2015 (Counselor)
Poet-in-Residence: Pearl River, NY, 2019

PUBLISHED 
Art Times August 2019 - "The Perils of an Artist's Spouse"
Best Version Media - Island Neighbors; 53rd Neighbors 2019-
Potholes and Poems - 2019
The Journal News - Education Outlook 2013 - present
Writing from Life (Poetry) 2017; 2018, 2019
Art Times July 2016 - "Not a Real Pollock"
Student Aid Transcript - NASFAA - 2010, 2011
The Nyack Villager - 2007 - 2009
Hudson Valley Life - cover story - January 2007
The Bicycle Book: Wit Wisdom and Wanderings - published by Satya House (2008)
Major contributor with "Life is a Bike" essays.
Fine Print - Nyack College, NY - 2009 & 2010
Life is a Bike©  - column appeared in newspapers and online 1999 - 2007
About Something©  - column in newspapers (PA, CA, NY, NJ & VA) - 2005 -2006
Modern Collage - short stories
One Voice - KPMG
The Record Newspaper
201 Magazine
The Italian Tribune - 2003 - 2005

Clients have included:
Best Version Media
United Way of Passaic County, Passaic, NJ
Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
Felician College, Lodi, NJ
Helen Hayes Hospital - Annual Report 2007 - W. Haverstraw, NY
Education Outlook - Journal News

Original Plays

 His Last Word - historical play based on Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi.  Performed at the JCC in Washington Township, NJ.
Soul Painter - winner in the Monologue Mania - performed in NYC; and local television.

The Jobless Chronicle - winner in Monologue Mania - performed at the Producer's Club, NYC;  Hudson House Dinner Theater in Nyack, NY; and for the AAUW of Rockland County.

The Waiting Room - winner of the Bergen County Cultural Festival - performed at the Bergen County Cultural Center (Hackensack, NJ); and the Hudson House Dinner Theater.

Also on Amazon:
Life is a Bike - essays
Like Gary Cooper - essays
His Last Word - (Primo Levi Holocaust survivor/ a play)













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