Welcome.
About Me
Howdy. My name is Dayten Rose.
I’m a writer, editor, and storyteller based out of Kansas City, MO. My passion is collecting oddball stories, the ones that happen under the louder historical flow, and then sharing them before they’re gone.
Professionally, my background is linguistics (politeness and cognitive metaphor theory), literary publishing, and local journalism. Together, they provide this incredible backdoor into thinking about words and the world, which I try to explore in my literary nonfiction. I think of myself mostly as a collector. Currently in my library: magical medieval robots, cowboy songs, action movies, early video game peripherals, Antarctic air crashes, and abandoned Missouri towns.
Outside of writing (barely outside) I’m an avid Dungeon Master and homebrewer (amateur designer) in Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons. I also recently smashed a haunted mask by accident, so anything you read from here on out is written by a ghost.
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Portfolio
My current work with 6AM City, a local media company based in Greenville, SC. I support 7 newsletters across Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Highlight Reel
- My conversation with Swayyvo, a dizzingly cool saxophonist from Chattanooga.
- The KC 2030 Strategic Plan, which I’m proud of mostly because the 92-page document came out to a cool 300 word story.
- This curling story, because curling rules and it was a blast to go. (Also loved making the accompanying Reel.)
- A light pollution explainer that’s run in 7 cities from Seattle to Austin to Lakeland, FL.
- Some history pieces: the San Damiano Friary (which includes a Quaker Oats research neighborhood) and the haunted Emily Morgan Hotel (which includes anguished gargoyles).
Check out the history stories I’ve written for Tedium. Tonight’s programming includes:
“Brazen heads,” magical medieval robots, and what they tell us about our relationship with machines. It has nothing to do with an imminent superintelligence takeover. It does have a little to do with demons.
The history of the spoiler: from the Arabian Nights, to the ego of Alfred Hitchcock, all the way to up to Netflix originals.
An audio story about the Mount Erebus disaster, where Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed in 1979, and the investigation that followed. I took on this project both to learn the basics of audio editing and storytelling, and to give an outlet to my passion for research nonfiction. Mostly though, the events of this air crash gripped me, and I wanted to honor it somehow. Really a labor of love, my first time working with audio, and a piece I’m still proud of.
"Speak Up!" and "Lexical Legacy"
I produced “Speak Up!” and “Lexical Legacy” as part of my internship with Truman State University’s Dept. of English & Linguistics. Tasked with making recruitment materials to draw students from state high schools, I began researching and scripting two short, show-in-class sized videos on topics in linguistics. Since very few local high schools actually introduce students to lingusitics as a discipline, I designed one to be shown in second language classes, and one for English classes. Through this two-year internship I got to manage a small team, work with some incredible writers and designers, and cut my teeth in audio editing and narration.
The 43rd edition of Windfall Magazine, Truman State University’s undergraduate literary magazine. I got to contribute to the book’s publishing as editor-in-chief, and got to give tons of up-and-coming poets, writers, and artists their first byline. Also, given the pace at which our situation was changing this year, the quick switch we made to a digital format was basically herculean. Hugely proud of the work we did, which you can check out here. (You can find the magazine online, including the archived 42nd and 44th editions, which I was also involved in publishing.)
A short biography of a guy on the moon. Published in Windfall 2021.
Contact
Call or text to (816) 810-3657.
Email dayten.rose@gmail.com.
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