
As a finance journalist and editor with GOBankingRates, Elyssa Kirkham covers finance news, consumer savings and deals, and banking. Kirkham's work has appeared on major sites like Huffington Post, MSN, Investopedia, CU and CB Insight, The Motley Fool and a range of major local newspapers.
Before GoBankingRates, Kirkham worked as a writer and editor for print magazines and digital marketing agencies. In her free time she also writes fiction.
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