About

I ghostwrite and publish books for clients and create personality profiles and features for newspapers, magazines and university publications. To discuss how I can help you with your writing needs, email me at christina@chswriter.com.

I began my career as an on-staff reporter at Die Presse, the leading national daily newspaper in Austria. During eight years at the publication, I worked on the national and international desks and edited the book review section for three years. After leaving Die Presse, I continued to work for the newspaper as a freelance journalist based first in Prague and then in Los Angeles.

During my career, I have interviewed party leaders, ministers, authors, high-profile lawyers and athletes. As a profile writer, I have portrayed musicians and artists, including the Austrian illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger, who won the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal. I interviewed the American novelist John Irving and fellow Austrian ex-pat Wolfgang Puck.

Since moving to Los Angeles, I have written dozens of personality profiles for institutions of higher education, including the University of Southern California and Claremont McKenna College. Among the individuals I portrayed are Edward Loh, Editor in Chief of Motor Trend magazine; Randol Schoenberg, the attorney of "Woman in Gold" movie fame; Olympic champion Inger Miller; Sheryl Gordon McCloud, a judge on the Washington State Supreme Court; and Jean Rosenbluth, a magistrate judge in Los Angeles.

One of my profiles and two of my feature stories won Los Angeles Press Club awards.

To contact me, email christina@chswriter.com.
My website is https://www.chswriter.com.

Other Works

  • Bootstrap Entrepreneur (coauthored with John Miller)

    2022
  • Schau, der Herr Temml! (coauthored with Walter Temml)

    2020

Awards and Recognition

  • 2016 Southern California Journalism Awards: My written portrait of Steven Hovagimian, a Syrian-Austrian-Armenian man in L.A., won 2nd place in the category Personality Profile/Interview — Online (Whatever It Takes, published by LA2DC.org).
  • 2013 Southern California Journalism Awards: My feature about professional nitpickers, published by the Pasadena Weekly, won third place in the category News Feature (under 1,000 words).
  • 2005 Southern California Journalism Awards: My feature about Simi Valley, Wir gehen immer nur kegeln (Bowling Is All We Can Do Here, published in Die Presse), won second place in the category News Feature – International Journalism.