About Me

Before text is laid out for print or digital publication, I scour it to identify and offer remedies so readers remain focused on and confidence in the material.

I provide client-centered copyediting.

I preserve author voice and style. My work ensures your work invites readers in without distractions. I suggest rewriting only to prevent confusion or errors.

I have copyedited more than sixty titles for Penguin Random House and Macmillan Publishers, two of the five remaining “Big Five” U.S. book publishers, as well as hybrid publishers and independent authors. As a volunteer, I copyedit materials for Vermont nonprofit organizations.

I’m trained, educated, and committed to ongoing learning.

My intensive six-month trade book copyediting mentorship with Editorial Arts Academy complements three decades of professional communications and community organizing experience. Read about how I got from there to here in my post on the Editorial Arts Academy blog.

I have a BA in English, an MA, an MS, and three decades of experience writing and editing news and feature columns, advocacy communications, and advertising and marketing materials.

My literary sensibilities began in childhood, reading my parents’ sci-fi and fantasy book collection, joining them to watch Star Trek: The Original Series and the OG Doctor Who. My journey within was fueled by my uncle’s psychedelic record collection and books. When I was in eighth grade, Be Here Now by Ram Dass found me in a bookstore, and I delve into that same old beloved copy to this day.

What else?

Daily mindfulness practices, a thirty-year professional history as a wellness practitioner and teacher, and twenty-plus years of vegan living keep me pointed toward doing the most good and least harm for the long-term well-being of all. And yes, I love cats that much and more.

I am a massage therapist and teacher of evidence-based breathwork, which I blog about at massagevermont.com.

My husband Chris and I manage a collectively tended community garden on our lawn, where twenty families grow food and flowers together to feed each other and our community. I blog about it at thegardenat485elm.org.