Project Profile
About
Hello! I’m Isaiah Underwood and I’m an avid writer with an urge to enhance a company’s representation of culture and authenticity by portraying a strong voice through effective writing skills that will embody the purpose of the company’s vision with my demonstration of creative and editorial work. I have a strong focus in copywriting, editing, content writing, and synopsis writing for organizations and companies which I could be of an asset to. I am currently searching for employment related to my field of study and eager to be exposed to areas that would better equip me for an editorial and/or writing related position.
I graduated from Ohio University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. I am currently based in Atlanta pursuing my Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Georgia State University as one of the editors for Five Points, a literary magazine, assisting in proofreading and monitoring the publication’s content on social media platforms In the past years, my creative work has been appreciated by different literary magazines and anthologies including Pine Manor College’s 2019 Maximum Tilt Solstice Anthology, Ohio University’s 2021 Spring issue of Sphere Magazine, and Ohio University’s 2020 student literary Portal Magazine.
Purpose
This portfolio is intended for job searches focusing more on content writing, copywriting and copyediting, and editorial positions for publications or other media influenced companies. From my creative work of poems and short prose to past articles I’ve written for newspaper columns, my aim is to create a personal website which showcases a range of my writing interests that could potentially strike the interest of different companies that I can be of an asset to regarding the editorial and writing field.
Content Design
I think it would be ideal to construct a site with, of course, an “About” page to familiarize my audience with my background and experience in different areas of content that would appeal to various concentrated types of writing related careers. A page focusing on my resume/CV would benefit others in gaining a better understanding of my professionalization and experience with editorial projects I’ve worked and collaborated with others on, as well as an extensive description of my role with the organization. A page related to a list of publications would also be beneficial to my site. I think providing my audience with links to my literary work can help them have a better scope of themes that interest me in literature which might spark a publishing company’s reasoning for considering me for an editorial position that is centered toward a particular genre of literature that I’m knowledgeable of. I also want to consider my experience with newspaper writing and include links to the different opinion articles I’ve compiled throughout the years that demonstrate my versatility with several topics associated with Pop Culture.
Design Tools
I’m aiming to engage with templates that display a full portfolio that is geared toward showcasing my writing. I’ve considered becoming more well-versed with coding which would be very beneficial in having more insight of the HTML process, its elements, and styles that would broaden my skills in effectively building my own site that complements the vision I have for the interfaces display. I’ve also thought of other programs like WordPress. Programs like Behanced, SquareSpace, and Adobe Portfolio have existing templates that I think can assist in creating the most cohesive and simplistic style for the goal of an intensive writer influenced portfolio.