Professional Bio.

C-Monster.net is produced by Carolina A. Miranda, a freelance writer and editor who has contributed stories on travel and culture to a variety of national and regional media, including Time, ArtNews, Budget Travel, Travel + Leisure, Florida Travel + Life, Lonely Planet and Fast Company. She is also a regular contributor at WNYC New York Public Radio, where she discusses cultural happenings on-air and online at Gallerina. As part of her freelance work, she has written features on the presence of street art in mainstream arts institutions, architectural pedagogy in Southern California and the burgeoning food scene in Lima, Peru.

Prior to working as a freelancer, she was a reporter at Time, where she covered the arts, education and social issues, in addition to many other subjects. During her time there, she interviewed Al Gore about his global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, reported on the burgeoning industry of skatepark design and was part of the team that broke the news of irregularities in FEMA director Michael Brown’s resume in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

In 2008, she was named one of eight fellows in the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program for C-Monster.net, which has been cited in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. In January of 2010, the New York Times named her one of nine people to follow on Twitter. (Find her at @cmonstah).

Selected pieces (in reverse chronological order):

Updated: June 2011.