Greg Roensch's CV

San Francisco

Professional Experience

Writer, Editor, Owner
Six String Communications
September 2012 - Present 
San Francisco
Copywriter. Ghostwriter. Scriptwriter. Articles. Blogs. Social Media. Corporate Communications. And more. I provide editorial support on corporate, marketing, and creative writing projects for a range of clients, many of which are in the business of making video games. - Current Project: Writer, Researcher, Curator, Creative Director for the EA Story Project
Writer - Editorial Director
Electronic Arts
September 1997 - September 2012 
Redwood City
Copywriter. Ghostwriter. User Documentation Writer. Game Dialogue Writer. Editor. Creative Services Team Leader. I started at EA as a video game manual writer, then progressed through the ranks as Senior Writer, Managing Editor, and Editorial Director.

Education

San Francisco State University
Master's Degree
San Francisco
English Literature
San Francisco State University
Bachelor's Degree
San Francisco
English Literature

Selected Press

August, 2019
A short interview by the editors at Defiant Scribe.
September, 2019
A short interview about one of my albums in Vents Magazine.
September, 2019
A review about selected tracks from the album "What's in the Meaning of That Cloud in the Sky."
April, 2021
Greg Roensch's Digestible Tales/Lois Lane Investigates Authors
An interview about "Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories" with a blogger, writer, publicist, and literary aficionado with insatiable curiosity.
July, 2024
Interview about my contribution to a collection of cemetery stories.

Select Publications

March, 2000
"Still or Sparkling"/Dream Noir Literary & Art Magazine
December, 2020
"Transformation"/365tomorrows
April, 2020
"Always on the Run"/Potato Soup Journal
February, 2018
"Romance, Shromance"/Defiant Scribe
July, 2016
August, 2022
"Giant Rock" /Bright Flash Literary Review

Albums

November, 2023
Fear the G-Drive

Performances

August, 2018
Stories & Songs/The Lost Church/ San Francisco
March, 2018
Stories & Songs/Octopus Literary Salon/ Oakland
November, 2017
Stories /Legion M Book of the Month
November, 2017
Stories & Songs/Borderlands Books/ San Francisco
August, 2017
Stories & Songs (Book & Album Release Party)/Potrero Stage/ San Francisco
March, 2023
Greg Roensch & Jules Leyhe /The Lost Church/ San Francisco

Short Films

June, 2020
A short animated film tribute to Ahmaud Arbery. Featuring saxophone by Andrew Dixon.
June, 2020
Late Afternoon Ocean Beach
This short poetry-film captures the sights and sounds of the beach, with a soundtrack featuring snapping guitar strings and marimba.
March, 2021
Then Came the Firestorm
This is a poetry-film about a firestorm, a pandemic, and murder hornets. Yes, it pretty much sums up the last year and a half ... and counting. Featuring music by Crystal Pascucci (cello) and Ryan Ross Smith (electronics).
October, 2022
Giant Rock
A desert dream vision. A deathbed hallucination. An extraterrestrial encounter. In this animated short film, the narrator visits the Southern California desert where he relives various stages of his life while wandering through a surreal landscape.
January, 2023
This Is Where We'll Build the Labyrinth/ San Francisco
A old oak falls in a vineyard, leaving a large dirt patch in the middle of the vines. It's the perfect spot for a labyrinth thinks the narrator as he ponders the news of the day, from the climate crisis to the latest mass shooting to the first images from the Webb telescope.
August, 2023
THE MISSING BOOK/ San Francisco
"A book is missing from my shelf..." So begins this short poetry-video in which the narrator ruminates on the imagined contents of his missing book. Featuring original music by Jules Leyhe.