About Me – Pema Teeter

My freelance career began as a features writer and editor for a community magazine in Santa Barbara, California. Simultaneously, I wrote a weekly interview column for the local Arts and Entertainment paper. These interviews early on taught me to listen, first of all, and to disappear in the writing, so that my subject could shimmer in his or her individuality. Twelve years later, having sharpened my listening, broadened my personal development, and learned inside industries such as technology, online advertising, finance, grantmaking, theatre, and others in the private and nonprofit sectors, my writing and story coaching continues to center on what I hear, and what I can help bring to the surface as a result.

Story coach, ghostwriter, editor, interviewer, reviewer, and playwright, my skills are at your service.

Schools:

- Actors Studio Drama School, New School for Social Research, New York City, M.F.A. Candidate, Playwriting, 2001

- College of Creative Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, B.A. in Literature, 1995