Jay will complete a five-year tenure as editorial director at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business in April 2020 to pursue freelance writing and editing. At Darden, he oversaw the school’s online news content and strategy; managed publications including The Darden Report alumni magazine, Pillars philanthropy newsletter and annual Darden Investors Report; and ensured quality control for all external-facing communications. Previously, he worked as lead speechwriter for the CEO of NRG Energy, a Fortune 500 company based in Princeton, New Jersey, following seven years as a journalist reporting and editing for Gannett newspapers and S&P Global (formerly SNL Financial). As a journalist, he won seven awards for reporting from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association. Jay’s short fiction has appeared in The Legendary, Pythia Journal, Oblong Magazine, and the Eunoia Review. You can read more at www.jayhodgkins.com or follow him on Twitter @JayPHodgkins. He has written four complete novel manuscripts and thinks two might even be decent. Jay earned an M.Sc. in creative writing with distinction from the University of Edinburgh and a B.Sc. in commerce from the University of Virginia.