
Oh, hey.
That's me,
Daniel DiStefano.
I'm a writer with deep 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 internal videos, scripts, pitches, websites and more. Some of that work is very cool, but a lot of it is super hush-hush. I just really like helping clients put their bright ideas into the juiciest arrangement of words. And I really, really like when a good commercial makes me do that little "huh" sound when it's over. You know the one.
I'm also a very proud member of The Oxford Comma Club.
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 used to have a pet frog who lived to be 25-years-old and now I 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 like books, donuts, coffee, and late Saturday mornings that combine all three.
*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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