Maria Griffin

Maria is the Senior Business and Technical Content Writer at Vexing Media. Combined with her master’s degree in English from Eastern Washington University and over 35 years of experience as a technical writer and editor, Maria brings communication skills that convey messages clearly, concisely, and accurately through written, oral, visual, and contextual methods.

Maria has written, edited, and revised content for websites, toolkits, training manuals, congressional reports, presentations, newsletters, grant and contract proposals, learning management systems, and books. Her clients in addition to Vexing Media include several federal agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services, Washington State Department of Commerce, a few tribal nations, numerous non-profit organizations, and for-profit entities.

Maria’s exceptional skills and use of gestalt theory for document design involve integrating visual elements to showcase the written sections of the document. Her time as a technical writer demonstrates her ability to translate technical verse to plain language. Additionally, her skills and experience include ADA 508 compliance, Microsoft Office suite, Adobe products, project management, health literacy, science and medical rhetoric, publishing, and training in technical writing. As a professional writer she is experienced in all aspects materials development. Maria creates processes and templates for recurring documents such as meeting notes, project reports, and proposals. She conducts an audience analysis when designing documents to ensure the engagement of the target audience and that the information given is clear and concise.

Maria’s editing services include substantive editing, copyediting, and proofreading in a variety of fields including health, science, business, engineering, and social sciences. She also is versed in several citation styles including Chicago, Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), Council of Science Editors (CSE), and the Government Publishing Office (GPO). Maria’s revision skills include changing a document for a different audience, reading levels, or a different purpose.

When not working for Vexing Media, Maria volunteers her time to a local native-led non-profit organization, Spokane Tribal Network (STN) as the board vice-president. As a citizen of the Spokane Tribe, she views her work with STN to give back to her people. Maria lends her expertise in professional writing by helping STN sort through the puzzling requests for proposals, set up a grant application template, or write and/or edit sections of their grant applications. She also helps with the grant prospecting as part of STN’s fundraising plan. At home Maria and her husband Ken like to try new recipes and eventually put their own spin on them. They are known around the neighborhood as the feral or community cat sanctuary hosts. Their five cats have come from this community and are happy to be indoor cats. Their oldest cat is 22 years old and the youngest is 5 months old. Additionally, Maria writes (of course), reads, plays computer games, and enjoys hand crafts such as crocheting, beading, and coloring with brush pens.