Tracey Pepper is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer, editor, and media trainer specializing in music, health, fitness, and green lifestyle. She is a former Senior Editor for Spin magazine in New York, where she worked for seven years editing profiles, news, and music culture pieces by such high-profile authors as Chuck Klosterman, Marc Spitz, and Andy Greenwald. She has also worked as a music editor at Interview magazine in New York and as a Senior Editor at Natural Health magazine in Los Angeles. As a writer, Pepper’s work has appeared in Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker (”Goings On About Town”), Playboy, Teen People, Interview, Cosmo Girl, Natural Health, Vegetarian Times, Stuff, Us, The Face, Paper, Chicago Magazine, and The New York Observer, where she worked as a reporter. Pepper holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a B.A. in English from Tufts University.
Pepper currently writes artist bios, music-industry executive bios, and press releases for Warner Bros. Records, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music Group, and Interscope Records, as well as for several independent PR and artist management companies. Artist bio clients include: Josh Groban, Katy Perry, Leona Lewis, Kings of Leon, David Cook, Ben Folds, Chris Cornell, OneRepublic, Michael Bublé, Gavin DeGraw, Joss Stone, Chris Isaak, Seal, Crowded House, Judy Collins, Indigo Girls, Kylie Minogue, Clay Aiken, and Ashley Tisdale, as well as music-industry executives Alexandra Patsavas, Jason Flom, Pat Magnarella, and Crush Management. Press-release clients include: Metallica, Green Day, Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., My Chemical Romance, Disturbed, Serj Tankian, Avril Lavigne, Spice Girls, KT Tunstall, Lindsey Buckingham, classical pianist Lang Lang, and many others.
A former Pilates instructor, Pepper also writes about yoga, Pilates, and other forms of fitness for Natural Health, and contributes a celebrity Q&A column to Vegetarian Times. She has also written and edited several fitness booklets for DVD/infomercial companies Guthy-Renker (Winsor Pilates, Malibu Pilates, Zumba) and Beach Body (Brazilian Butt Lift).
Pepper works under tight deadlines to deliver clean, original copy and is available to serve all your writing, editing, and coaching needs. Click on the page links at top right to see samples of her work. Please email her at greenbird05@sbcglobal.net for rates and scheduling.
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