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  • Book Writing
  • Copywriting
  • Fiction Writing
  • Philosophy
  • Polish Language
  • Thesis

Services

  • Writer and editor

    $30/hr Starting at $120 Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    Much-published fiction writer and experienced Marketing writer/editor who also published his Philosophy Ph.D. thesis as a book. Will edit and polish texts of all kinds (except technical) or write original...

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About

Eloquent, clear, fast, and versatile as a writer and editor

COPY EDITING AND PROOFREADING WORK

Marketing Department: Idyllwild Arts Academy (Idyllwild, CA), July 2012 - June 2022

Most of my work consisted of proofreading and editing different Marketing texts, including press releases, advertisements, and letters from the Head of School.

I also wrote the monthly newsletter of this arts high school, averaging five stories per month, totaling some 500 pieces ranging in length from 250 to 1,200 words. Most still appear on the Idyllwild Arts website at idyllwildarts.org/blog/.


SELECTED FICTION PUBLICATIONS

"Very Pretty,” Punk Noir, 2022 (tinyurl.com/3ut3m7e7)

“Vanishing Race,” A New Ulster, March 2022

“Quarantine,” Evening Street Review, Summer 2022

“Mai soixante-huit,” Jupiter Review, Fall 2022 (forthcoming)

I have published 80 more short stories: see https://donstoll.naiwe.com/.


ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Book: Philosophy and the Community of Speech. New York: University Press of America, 1987

Peer-reviewed journals:

“Hegel and the Speech of Reconciliation,” Idealistic Studies, 19 (2), 1989

“Kantian and Platonic Conceptions of Order,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 3 (4), 1989

“Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas: Forgetting and Remembering the Jews,” Philosophy Today, 43 (4), 1999


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1985 – The Pennsylvania State University

Dissertation: Philosophy and the Community of Speech. Dr. Carl G. Vaught, Chair

B.A. in Philosophy, 1981 – University of California, Santa Cruz


ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor of Philosophy: St. Joseph’s College (Los Altos Hills, CA), 1985 - 1989

Adjunct Lecturer: Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA), Department of Philosophy, 1989 - 1998


VOLUNTEER WORK

Co-founder and Treasurer, Karimu International Help Foundation, 2008 - present

This 501(c)(3) nonprofit (https://www.karimufoundation.org/), which I co-founded, brings schools, water, hospitals, and other desperately needed development projects to several remote rural villages in Tanzania.

Work Terms

Hours flexible, payment terms negotiable, please email at stoll.sia@gmail.com.

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