Craig Lancaster
Analyst/Content Specialist
Craig is an analyst/content specialist with the Payments team at Javelin Strategy & Research. He comes to Javelin after a long career as a print and digital journalist, where he specialized in content editing, coaching of writers, and the packaging of information.
Most recently, he was a senior editor at The Athletic and a longtime freelance contributor to Javelin as an editor and a writer before joining the team full time.
Craig is also the author of ten novels and a collection of short stories, work that has received regional, national, and international awards and has been translated widely. His essays, journalism, and fiction have been published by Writer’s Digest, Montana Quarterly, the Dallas Morning News, the San Jose Mercury News, and others.
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