Gigi Rosenberg is an author, speaker, coach, and workshop leader. Her essays and articles have been published by Seal Press, The Oregonian, Jewish Review, Parenting, and Writer’s Digest. Her book, The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing (Random House, December 2010) grew out of her acclaimed professional development workshops launched in Portland, Oregon, and taught at Chicago’s Self Employment in the Arts, New York City’s Foundation Center, and throughout the Pacific Northwest.

As a writer, she explores the world’s peculiarities and paradoxes. In essays, memoir, and dramatic monologs, she scrutinizes taboos and investigates the quirks, losses, and impossible expectations of being a mother, daughter, wife, and human.

As a presentation coach, she draws on her background in writing, visual art, theater, and corporate communications to coach business people and artist entrepreneurs. Her workshop Make a Great Presentation has been featured at Microsoft, Mercy Corps NW, and the University of Portland’s Center for Entrepreneurship. She has taught Give a Good Reading at Seattle’s Richard Hugo House, Lewis and Clark College, the Willamette Writers Conference, and Seattle’s BizArt Conference.

Born in New York City to professional visual artist parents, Gigi grew up there and in Boston. At McGill University in Montreal she studied psychology and English literature and graduated with a degree in anthropology. Since then, she’s studied theology, writing, fine arts, and theater at many institutions including the Parsons School of Design in Paris, Harvard University, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Sundance Institute.

In Boston and Portland, Oregon, she worked for 15 years for corporations and non-profits. As vice-president at Larry Miller Productions in Boston and as a freelance producer in Portland she produced TV commercials, corporate videos, films, and print projects. Her clients have ranged from Portland General Electric to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to Combined Jewish Philanthropies, to Boston City Hospital, to LU Cookies in Paris with many others in between.

Today she works in downtown Portland, Oregon, in an historic 1891 building near the urban shore of the Willamette River where she glimpses Mt. Hood from her 5th floor window. From there she writes books and memoir, coaches clients on presentations, and teaches workshops on grant writing to artists. Her latest project is the book The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing: How to Find Funds and Write Foolproof Proposals for the Visual, Literary, and Performing Artist which will be hot off the press from Random House in December.