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Biography
Kris Frieswick is a humor, business and lifestyle writer who
tackles life's tough subjects: taxes, politics, thong underwear, finance, the joys of sexual harassment, managing wealth, and the
like. For eight years, she was a senior writer at CFO magazine, an award-winning corporate finance magazine with
500,000 readers, owned by the Economist Group. While there, she won
numerous awards for her investigative journalism.
On a completely different note, for five
years, she was a contributing humor writer for the Phoenix
newspapers, an award-winning chain of alternative news weeklies with a
circulation of over 200,000 throughout New England.
In February 2002, she won second place in the Best Humor Columnist category
of the 2001 New England Press Association Awards.
As a recent full-time freelancer, her
humor and business work has been in demand at such magazines as the
Economist, Boston Magazine, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Redbook,
Worth Magazine, Southwest Airline’s Spirit Magazine, MSN Money and
many more.
A collection of Kris's humor work
appears in Volume Two of "Mirth of a Nation, an
anthology of the best contemporary American humor," published by
Perennial (an imprint of HarperCollins). Volume two includes such humor
legends as Steve Martin, Merrill Markoe, Andy Borowitz, Ian Frazier, Rick Moranis,
and Will Durst. Her work also appears in "101 Damnations:
The Humorists' Handbook to Personal Hells", published by St. Martin's Press/ Thomas Dunne Books.
Kris is a frequent public speaker and
has been a guest on numerous radio talk shows including Talk America's
nationally syndicated radio program, "Born in the 60's,"
featuring host Jeff Santos. She has performed sketch comedy and monologue
at the world-famous comedy club The Comedy Studio at the Hong Kong
Restaurant in Harvard Square,
and at the Lizard Lounge, both in Cambridge,
Mass., and she has been a
featured guest on other national radio shows. The Independent Media
Institute has lauded her as a "smart, funny voice" to watch
in American media.
Kris grew up in a small farming
community in central Massachusetts,
where her earliest goal was to "get the hell out of town," which
she did at age 16. After graduating from Emerson
College in Boston, she did time as a daily newspaper
reporter covering everything from planning board meetings to the Pamela
Smart murder case. Her humor and feature work has appeared in USA Today, Skiing Magazine, Redbook, Powder
Magazine, Aspen Magazine, Fine Magazine, The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain
News. In addition to the humor anthologies, she has been a contributing
writer on two books; "The Groliers Masterplots Series," (Groliers
Publishing) and "The Aspen Book," (1993, Berkshire House
Publishers) written by Diane Tegmeyer.
Kris lives in the South End neighborhood
of Boston, Massachusetts with her awesome husband,
Andrew Robinson. She is writing her first book, a humorous memoir,
tentatively titled “The Perils
of Overconfidence.” She is an avid skier, touring cyclist, and
traveler.
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