Natasha Burton
I am a writer, editor, author, copy writer, writing consultant and SEO content creator with over 20 years of industry experience. Before freelancing full time, I worked for Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, People magazine and Glo.com, a women's lifestyle site partnered with MSN and Hearst magazines that I helped launch. I’ve written six books on dating, relationships and weddings and assisted high-profile brands and personalities to create content (including ghostwriting books and articles). I'm also a former writing lecturer at USC.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FREELANCE WRITER + EDITOR, Self-Employed | Santa Barbara, CA | 2012-Present
Contribute articles to various online and print publications, including Northwestern Mutual (formerly LearnVest), Healthline, Reader's Digest, Livestrong, Woman's Day, Lover.ly, StyleCaster and many others; work with lifestyle brands and PR firms to create content and web copy for clients, develop SEO-optimized articles. View selected clips here
STAFF WRITER, Cosmopolitan.com | Remote | 2012 -2013
Contributed original features, personal essays and daily news write-ups for magazine's re-launched website on topics ranging from politics and sex to health and weddings.
STAFF WRITER + EDITOR, The Huffington Post | Beverly Hills, CA | 2012
Wrote 75 articles in first three months of full-time employment, contributing personal essays, op-eds, as-told-tos, slideshows, human interest stories and reported features to the site’s Weddings and Divorce sections; edited content for both sections.
RELATIONSHIPS EDITOR, Glo.com/MSN.com | Santa Monica, CA | 2010-2012
Helped facilitate site launch, created monthly edit plan for relationships vertical (the site's biggest traffic driver), contributed to site-wide editorial planning and worked to secure placements on MSN.com's homepage and lifestyle section.
FREELANCE REPORTER, People | Los Angeles, CA + New York, NY | 2006-2008
Earned bylines on breaking news cover stories for reporting, including the Virginia Tech shooting and Britney Spears’ divorce; notable interviews included Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, John Legend and Kim Kardashian.
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​EDUCATION
M.A., PROFESSIONAL WRITING University of Southern California 2007–2009
B.A., JOURNALISM / THEATER University of Southern California 2002–2006
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BOOKS
What's My Type? 101+ Quizzes to Help Your Find Yourself—and Your Match, Simon & Schuster, 2020
101 Quizzes for Brides & Grooms, Simon & Schuster, 2016
The Loverly Wedding Planner (ghostwriter), Callisto, 2015
101 Quizzes for BFFs, Adams Media, 2014
101 Quizzes for Couples, Adams Media, 2013
The Little Black Book of Big Red Flags, Adams Media, 2011
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