Eric Staggs

Eric has worked as a professional freelance web content writer since 2006. 5+ years managing teams of up to 10 creative and technical staff. Experience with clients ranging from "Mom and Pop" to multi-million dollar corporations. Technical experience includes video and film production, animation, web design, social media marketing, project management, creative consultation and leadership. Writing corporate communications for internal or external clients. Press releases, web content generation. Game writing (interactive branching dialogue, setting, plot), character development and script analysis. Social media marketing.

Awards: Writer's Digest Honorable Mention, Aviator Literary Magazine Editor's Choice, Course Award: Writing for Games, Course Award: The Art of Visual Storytelling, Honorable Mention: Chicago Association of Direct Marketing (interactive - 2002)

Eric's most recent project was The Darkest Age, an alternate-history role-playing game set in the 14th century. Eric created and write the game, setting and supplemental thematic material.

Eric earned an interdisciplinary BA from Columbia College Chicago in Creative Writing and Screen Writing in 2006. Eric earned his MFA in Creative Writing early in 2011. Eric a member of the Wisconsin Screen Writer's Forum and the Council for Wisconsin Writers.

His hobbies include philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, classical history, gaming, strategy, literature, cinema, cultural trends, technology, Buddhism and of course, zombies.

His hobbies include philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, classical history, gaming, strategy, literature, cinema, cultural trends, technology, Buddhism and of course, zombies.