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Professional Bio

I am an editor and writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

For the last 18 years, I have worked with nonprofits, societies, authors, and publishing services. I work with authors across all levels of writing and publishing experience, as well as with authors from a variety of language backgrounds.

As an editor, writer, and creative, I embrace a multidisciplinary approach. I believe the editing process is a relationship.

Education

I attended the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) for undergrad, where I earned my BA in English Literature & Composition, minoring in Creative Writing and Anthropology. I participated in the National Student Exchange program while at UNI and studied at William Paterson University and Stony Brook University, New York. I completed the Pre-Health program at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. I earned my MA in Counseling Psychology from the University St. Thomas, Minnesota.

More About Me

While at UNI, I interned at the North American Review, wrote for the Northern Iowan, wrote and workshopped a chapbook of micro-fiction, & received a department award for my work. The North American Review published a piece of my micro-fiction.

Following my graduation from UNI, I worked at Oxford University Press (OUP) on the journals team for several years before embarking on freelance editing and writing.

At Meredith College, I worked as an Anatomy and Physiology teaching assistant in the lab, and I still love to nerd out on new findings in the neuroscience research and in behavioral economics.

I am trained in traditional literary criticism, new criticism, and Rogerian psychotherapy. I became a BELS-certified editor in 2017. My core values are humility, playfulness, connection, tenacity, and curiosity.