Steve Heisler

Copywriter, Journalist and Content Manager

United States

Hello! I'm Steve, an entertainment journalist and copywriter with fluency in comedy, TV, cannabis and games of board/video/card varieties. I also work as a PR and marketing content specialist for a software company, where I produce thought leadership pieces on the tech industry, AI, customer experience and everything in-between.

Both my B2C and B2B writing offers clarity about complex topics—I excel at distilling technical jargon and industry lingo into compelling, precise pieces of content.

Publications include: Rolling Stone, GQ, Fast Company, Variety, The AV Club and the Chicago Sun-Times.

Endorsed by Mel Brooks. Seriously!

Portfolio
Marketing News
08/02/2019
Chronic Misperception

How a content marketer with a background in journalism is helping to reverse cannabis stigma—the result of decades of anti-drug propaganda—by focusing on the facts

Hava Naturals
HAVA Naturals: THC Edibles and Extracts

For this cannabis company, I provided some copywriting while writing biweekly blog posts for a year about live rosin and the cannabis industry (though most have been taken down at this point). Here's more about the brand:

Rolling Stone
02/24/2014
Jerky Boys: Behind the Prank Calls That Changed Comedy

During their nineties heyday, the Jerky Boys turned prank calling into a funny, filthy art form. Then they went quiet. Now, the group's co-founder and driving force, Johnny Brennan, is ready to hit redial on his career.