Jess Zafarris

Jess Zafarris is the author of Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids . She is also an award-winning innovator of digital content and marketing solutions and a prolific online and print journalist, having served as Audience Engagement Editor at Adweek and Executive Director of Marketing & Communications for Gotham Ghostwriters. Before that, she served as Content Strategist and Digital Content Director for Writer's Digest and Script , and she still occasionally writes for WD. Her...See more

Jess Zafarris is the author of Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids . She is also an award-winning innovator of digital content and marketing solutions and a prolific online and print journalist, having served as Audience Engagement Editor at Adweek and Executive Director of Marketing & Communications for Gotham Ghostwriters. Before that, she served as Content Strategist and Digital Content Director for Writer's Digest and Script , and she still occasionally writes for WD. Her nine years of experience in digital and print content direction and marketing include such roles as editor-in-chief of HOW magazine and online content director of HOW and PRINT magazine, as well as writing for the The Hot Sheet, the Denver Business Journal , ABC News, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal . She has a bachelor's degree in English Literature (with minors in Arabic and Anthropology) from DePaul University and a master's degree in Journalism & Mass Communications from the University of Colorado Boulder. See less