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== Writing career ==
As a teen studying journalism at Wayne State UniveristyUniversity, Uhelszki sold T-shirts for the ''Creem'' subscription department in 1970.<ref>[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wastoids-with-jaan-uhelszki-of-creem-magazine/id1574769275?i=1000571242907 WASTOIDS With Jaan Uhelszki of ''Creem'' Magazine.] Retrieved September 27, 2022.</ref> Editor [[Dave Marsh]] assigned her to cover [[Smokey Robinson|Smokey Robinson's]] retirement from The Miracles press conference. She wrote the piece as an open letter to Robinson, begging him not to leave the music industry. The resulting article, her first, was a 1972 ''Creem'' cover story.<ref name=RockCriticsLetter2002>Uhelszki, Jaan. April, 1972. "Jaan Uhelszki – An Open Letter to Smokey Robinson," Rockcritics.com archives (original publisher: ''Creem'')</ref><ref name=NYTimes2022>Rubin, Mike. August 3, 2020. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/arts/music/creem-magazine-documentary.html "The Wild Story of ''Creem'', Once ‘America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine’,"] ''The New York Times''. New York, New York. Retrieved September 27, 2022.</ref>
She wrote movie columns and feature-length profiles, eventually becoming a senior editor while working alongside fellow writer [[Lester Bangs]]. ''Creem'' at the time employed what was considered a “dream team” of rock writers, including Uhelszki, Bangs, Marsh, Ben Edmonds, and Roberta Cruger. Uhelszki has described the insular experience of working on a monthly music magazine as “like living on Donkey Island from Pinocchio--only we looked entirely normal.”<ref name=RockCritics2002 />
