Hello!

Professional Bio

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

I have been an editor and writer since the mid-2000s, starting in production at Oxford University Press in Cary, North Carolina. I have worked primarily as a freelancer since the 2010s, partnering with nonprofits, societies, authors, and publishing services. I earned a BELS editing certification in 2017 (expires 2028).

Education

Academic studies inform my work. As an undergraduate, I attended the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), where I earned a BA in English Literature & Composition, minoring in Creative Writing and Anthropology. I studied traditional literary criticism and new criticism, as well as cultural linguistics and semantics. I also participated in the National Student Exchange program and studied at William Paterson University and Stony Brook University, New York. I completed a Pre-Health program at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and earned the role of Anatomy and Physiology teaching assistant in the lab. I earned my MA in Counseling Psychology from the University St. Thomas, Minnesota.

Extra Extra

I grew up mostly in the Midwest, except for a brief stint in Las Vegas, Nevada, and a summer in Phoenix, Arizona.

Throughout junior high, I delivered a paper route (on rollerblades when the weather cooperated).

While at UNI, I interned at the North American Review, wrote for the Northern Iowan, wrote and workshopped a chapbook of micro-fiction, receiving a department award for my work. The North American Review published a piece of my micro-fiction. After graduating, I briefly cowrote a food blog for a local newspaper.

While working on my master’s, I completed an AmeriCorp Fellowship at an alternative school and a 700-hr clinical psychotherapy internship in school-based mental health, both within an urban environment.

When I’m not editing and writing, I enjoy playing mahjongg, participating in film club, cycling, and spending time with family and friends.