Karen Desrosiers
Resume
Experience
1/03-present 
Exeter Center for Creative Arts, Executive Director and Lead Art Teacher, Exeter, NH
Exeter Center for Creative Arts, Executive Director and Lead Art Teacher, Exeter, NHResponsibility for daily management of the non-profit art center, including budgeting, accounts receivable and payable, marketing, and annual reporting, as well as grant research and writing. Other responsibilities include developing class schedules, taking registrations, and liaison with community, as well as developing course curriculum and teaching kids ages 3 through 12. Supervising a team of five to twelve contract teachers.
8/01-presentFreelance Writer, Writing Teacher, and Grant Writer
Freelance Writer, Writing Teacher, and Grant Writer Exeter, NHWriting fiction, travel guides, non-fiction books, essays, technical manuscripts, and grants. Book length technical manuscripts include training manuals and software documentation. Editing, proofreading, and providing feedback for other writers, in a wide range of genres, as well as providing coaching to help other writers advance their craft.
Business writing including press releases, business plans, sponsorship/donor packets and fundraising case statements, executive bios, and copy writing for marketing materials.
Freelance grant writing including research, organization of grant information, and grant applications for individuals and non-profit corporations with a focus and expertise in the arts.
Offering a variety of writing workshops in fiction and non-fiction, for all levels, as well as individual coaching, manuscript review, and book-doctoring.
Significant achievements include:
- Author and photographer of Daytrips Quebec, Hastings House Books, publication June 2006, including marketing book to bookstores
- Co-author of A Group of One’s Own: Nurturing the Woman Writer, Story Line Press, August 2003
- Comprehensive marketing campaign for A Group of One’s Own including approximately fifty events across New England, development of a full press kit, radio interviews, and press releases
- A monthly column for Our Times, a local woman’s news magazine, for two years
- Freelance articles, on assignment, for the Portsmouth Herald and Hampton Union
- Collaboration to write, design, typeset, publish, and market an anthology, Journey of Words.
2/92-3/02Independent Software Consultant
Independent Software Consultant Software Operations Services, Hampton, NHResponsible for all aspects of running the consulting business, including marketing, accounting, accounts receivable and payable, and customer service. Providing technical support, software development, problem resolution, and project planning for extensive networks using Alpha and VAX OpenVMS servers. Developed technical documentation and training materials, and presented in-depth technical training.
Education
7/07-08/09 Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH
Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH MFA Fiction Writing, 08/095/92-presentNumerous workshops, classes, and independent coaching through local authors, UNH, the New Hampshire Writer’s Project, and other non-profit training organizations, on all aspects of the craft and business of writing, and grant writing.
Numerous workshops, classes, and independent coaching through local authors, UNH, the New Hampshire Writer’s Project, and other non-profit training organizations, on all aspects of the craft and business of writing, and grant writing.9/05-6/07 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Studio Arts1986 Bachelor of Science Computer Science
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Western New England College, Springfield, MAAchievements and Awards
2008 Graduate Assistant Fellowship, Southern New Hampshire University, MFA
program2007 A Room of Her Own Foundation Women’s Writing Retreat Fellowship
1987 Digital Equipment Corporation Most Valuable Team Player
1988 Digital Equipment Corporation Excellence Award
Affiliations
New Hampshire Writer’s Project
Southern New Hampshire Women’s Writing Group
MicroCredit-NH, Achieving Momentum Business Group, Chair
Town of Exeter Arts Committee, Scribe
Karen Desrosiers PO Box 186 Exeter, NH 03833 karendnh@gmail.com
