Gabrielle Hovendon

Gabrielle Hovendon has over 14 years of experience in copywriting, content management, editing, and teaching. From 2008 to 2018, they worked as a freelance copywriter and editor, writing SEO blog posts, magazine features, interviews, B2B webpages, social media content, taglines, and more for clients in digital marketing, fintech, NFTs, e-learning, lifestyle and wellness, museums, cybersecurity, and STEM. Gabrielle also edited textbooks, doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, business case studies, academic journal articles, personal memoirs, college and graduate school application essays, and teaching portfolios. In 2018, they joined The Georgia Review as an editorial staff, where they collaborated on developmental editing, copyediting, proofreading, and manuscript preparation for a prestigious quarterly literary journal. Gabrielle also created and curated images and wrote copy for online marketing, and developed new programming and reconfigured the undergraduate intern program to grow their social media presence. From 2012 to 2017, they were a college instructor and course designer at the University of Georgia and Bowling Green State University, where they created all original syllabi, assignments, lessons, and activities, as well as specialized instruction for business communications for 4 Master’s of Accounting courses at the Terry School of Business. In 2017, they joined UGA at Oxford as an Administrator, and in 2012 they joined Mid-American Review as an Assistant Editor. In 2018, they joined Prompt as a Senior Writing Manager, where they co-managed a diverse team of 150+ writers at a rapidly scaling ed-tech startup with ~75% annual growth. In 2022, they joined ShardSecure as a Lead Storyteller & Copywriter & Content Manager, where they designed content calendars for marketing campaigns and developed and managed the content creation, approval, design, and publication workflows for sales, engineering, and marketing materials. Gabrielle also wrote press releases, white papers, case studies, briefs, newsletters, video scripts, FAQs, email cadences, SEO blogs, and more. In 2022, they also joined GR0 as an Editorial Content Manager, where they edited SEO content and oversaw deliverables for clients in insurance, biomedical testing, real estate, VR gaming, crypto, and financial services at an award-winning digital marketing and SEO agency.

Gabrielle Hovendon's education history includes a Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and Sciences which they completed in 2019. Gabrielle is an Affiliate Member of the University of Oxford, studying English Literature. Gabrielle also holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University, which they completed in 2014. In 2009 and 2010, they were a Visiting Student at the University of Oxford studying English Literature. Lastly, they hold a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Fordham University, which they completed in 2011.