Oh, hey.
It's me,
Daniel DiStefano.
WORK DAN
I'm a writer with proven experience in the fintech, advertising, B2B, B2C, strategy, and healthcare worlds. I’ve worked for agencies big and small, written commercials for Fortune 50 companies, coined nationally recognized taglines, and developed videos, scripts, pitches, websites, and more. Some of that work is super cool, some of it is super hush-hush, and all of it makes me super proud.
I get a kick out of helping clients put their bright ideas into the juiciest arrangement of words. I ask a lot of questions, write a lot of options, and always help you get there, wherever "there" is.
LIFE DAN
I grew up in New Jersey, so I understand things like The Sopranos, Bruce Springsteen, and William Carlos Williams a little better than most. Whenever I say "the city," I'm still talking about New York. I like books, donuts, coffee, and late Saturday mornings that combine all three. I'm a copywriter by day and fiction writer by night, but really just a nerd who likes constructing good sentences. I'm a very proud member of The Oxford Comma Club who prefers writing with an inky black pen over typing on a keyboard. I used to have a pet frog who lived to be 25-years-old and now have a pitbull who sometimes pees in her sleep and looks a little like one of those gargoyle monsters from Ghostbusters. But, like, in a cute way. I now live in Baltimore with my partner and our objectively adorable son. And yes, we like telling people that Baltimore is more than The Wire.
*I am not this DiStefano
Work Experience
Senior Copy Strategist at Green Dot Corporation
March 2021 — Present
Pasadena, CA, USA
Associate Creative Director of Copy at MOD Worldwide
April 2020 — March 2021
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Senior Copywriter at MOD Worldwide
Mar 2019 — April 2020
Copywriter at MOD Worldwide
Nov 2017 — Mar 2019
Copywriter at Game Seven Marketing
Nov 2014 — Oct 2017
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Thesis Adviser at University of Michigan
2013 — 2014
Apprentice at Wolverine Press
2013 — 2014
Graduate Student Instructor at University of Michigan
2011 — 2013
Foreign Contracts Coordinator at Janklow & Nesbit Associates
2009 — 2011
Permissions & Contracts Assistant at Janklow & Nesbit Associates
2007 — 2009
Editorial Assistant at Canteen Magazine
2007 — 2008
Writing Fellowships
NYC Emerging Writer Fellow
Center for Fiction
2016
Zell Fellow
Helen Zell Writers' Program
University of Michigan
2014
Colby Fellow
Helen Zell Writers' Program
University of Michigan
2011-2013
Education
MFA in Fiction
Helen Zell Writers' Program
University of Michigan
2011 – 2013
BA in English/Creative Writing
Muhlenberg College
2003 – 2007
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