Words from Hell

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.