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I spend most of my time helping to write investment research at a Wall Street firm.

But by night I imagine myself to be a writer of fiction. Though the growing heap of words I've written remains almost entirely unpublished, you can see some of my handiwork at the New York section of Hitotoki.org, where I'm not only the editor but also a writer.

From July 2003 until August 2007, I was a reporter and writer at Forbes, covering investing topics for different parts of the Forbes organization (Forbes Magazine, Forbes.com, Best of the Web and the Forbes Newsletter Group, where I covered art collecting for The Forbes Collector). I also spent nine months at Forbes' Silicon Valley bureau during 2005-2006.

In 2001, I graduated with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. While I was at Penn, I was the editor in chief of 34th Street Magazine, the school's student-run, weekly arts and entertainment magazine. In addition, I minored in music theory.

During the two years between graduating and working at Forbes, I did all sorts of things. I wrote for jazz magazines, worked on business plans, created a tiny bit of advertising copy and even worked as the assistant to a comedian for the better part of a year (which means everything from fighting parking tickets to buying organic carrots for her dog).