About Me
My first foray into professional writing was a 'zine, which means it was the early nineties. I was thirteen, and enthralled with pretentious art films and midnight movies.
I won the Maxwell Anderson prize for Young Connecticut Playwrights when I was sixteen, for my play, Punishment for Thought. I told you I was pretentious.
Then I got sick. From the ages of sixteen to twenty-two, I was bedridden with Lyme disease. Toward the end of my illness, I was having up to twenty seizures a day. I had a miracle cure with the help of my doctors, Bernard Raxlen and Amiram Katz, and IVIG (intravenous immunoglobulin), which was detailed in "Newsweek".
Back in the saddle, I studied screenwriting with Writers Boot Camp. For samples of my scripts--still a major focus of my output--e-mail me at alicelevitt@gmail.com. It was my screenwriting which brought me to the WWE. I had all but gotten a job writing for the TV shows, when my man at HR, Jon Weiner, explained the difficult lifestyle involved, saying, "Wouldn't you rather work for the magazine instead?" I had never worked for a magazine before, but nonetheless, Editor in Chief, Tony Romando liked me and my work enough to put me up to be a Senior Editor. He later told me that I was the second choice, but without necessary editorial skills, lost out. (Since then, I have beefed up those abilities with an internship at EatingWell Magazine and working on staff at Seven Days, where I have now been Food Writer and Assistant Online Editor for more than a year. ) I began freelancing for WWE Magazine, and wrote the entire 2007 Fall Preview myself, save for one feature.
I like me some wrasslin' but my real passion is food. Indian buffets are my religion- it's where I worship on Sundays. I will eat anything and likely love it. I am a personality food writer and food video star, specializing in first-person culinary experiences. I do not give a shit about where my arugula was grown or the latest trend in artisan cheese. If you want me to report on the carbon footprints of various food products, you'd better have a lot of money. I just want to eat. Everything.