A native of Las Vegas and graduate of Southern University, Damon Hodge has been writing professionally for 12 years. His journalistic experience includes weekly and daily newspapers, including time as a casino gaming reporter for lasvegasgamingwire.com (affiliated with the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal), a stint as an award-winning staff writer for Las Vegas Weekly, the city’s preeminent alternative newsweekly publication, as well as publication, as a freelancer, in a wide array of outlets from Travel Weekly newspaper and Golf Business magazine to Thomson Reuters News Service and Black Enterprise Magazine to religious, entertainment and sports-oriented media.