Tracey Pepper is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer, editor, and media consultant specializing in music, health, and fitness. 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, 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, Capitol Music Group, and RCA Records, as well as for several independent PR and artist management companies. Recent bio clients include: Josh Groban, Clay Aiken, Michael Bublé, Joss Stone, Chris Isaak, Leona Lewis, Seal, Crowded House, Kings of Leon, Taking Back Sunday, Judy Collins, Gillian Welch, Sam Phillips, Kylie Minogue, Katy Perry, Tristan Prettyman, Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, and Ashley Tisdale. Press-release clients include: Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., Metallica, Janet Jackson, My Chemical Romance, Serj Tankian, Avril Lavigne, Spice Girls, KT Tunstall, Interpol, Lindsey Buckingham, Flaming Lips, 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 company Guthy-Renker (Winsor Pilates, Malibu Pilates, Zumba).
Pepper works under tight deadlines to deliver clean, original copy and is available to serve all your writing and editing 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.
