My Personal Bio
Welcome to my portfolio site.
I’m Jared Magill, Utah resident, father of ferrets, son of an infidel, multimedia writing pro, and all-around Mensch … or so I’m told.
I come from a background in English Lit and journalism, a fact which may raise a couple of assumptions. So, by way of disclaimer, yes that means I’ve got my pensive stoicism game cranked up to 11. But no, you’ll find neither rye whiskey, nor a loaded revolver in my desk drawer. In college, I worked three semesters as a T.A. for a Special Topics in Literature course on nature writing, which involved reading a lot of Hemingway and Edward Abbey and guiding motley gangs of Harry Potter and Anne of Green Gables geeks on experiential learning excursions in the Utah wilderness where they would, inevitably feel all their feels, like it or not.
Just because there has never been a brooding, misanthropic, curmudgeonly, western writer who I didn’t enjoy, doesn’t mean I am one. Although, like Ed Abbey, I once lived an entire autumn in a tin-roofed, wooden shack out in the red-rock desert backcountry outside Moab, Utah.
I like Hunter Thompson but prefer Chuck Bowden. I like Annie Dillard, but love Anne Carson. I think Kierkegaard’s influence on Camus is largely underestimated. I prefer soccer over basketball but generally regard team sports as half recreation, half Kabuki dance of populist politics and social hierarchy rituals, so I keep them all at arm’s length. I’m also among the elite few who realizes that if only a Sith deals in absolutes, then the Star Wars movies are, in fact, a Sith.
In late 2012, I helped launch Humanitarian Health International (HHI), a nonprofit medical organization that operated in close partnership with the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. The HHI mission was to lead high-impact surgical teams into impoverished, under-served, and catastrophe-stricken regions like Haiti. My involvement with HHI included grant proposal writing, web copywriting, and traveling with medical teams to document and report back from the field.
You can find some of my work on publications like Wired.com, Inc.com, a handfull of fortune 500 company websites, and a couple of obscure lit journals.
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