Hello!
Professional Bio
Sydney (she/they) is an editor and writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
My creative journey started in childhood with a habit of pulling apart restaurant menus for typos. My friends and family enabled this habit, and, in grade school, I leaned into this role as “the friend who reads everyone’s book reports.”
Never letting my right-brain tendencies dominate, I elected to take business, marketing, and entrepreneurship classes during secondary school and organized a senior fundraiser. I knew finance and self-employment would factor into my future somehow!
I attended the University of Northern Iowa for undergrad, where I studied English Literature & Composition, Creative Writing, and Anthropology, and I later attended Meredith College for Biology.
I interned at the North American Review, wrote restaurant reviews for the Northern Iowan, and completed a chapbook of micro-fiction exploring gender identity prior to graduation.
Following graduation, I accepted a position at Oxford University Press (OUP) on the journals team. And the North American Review published a piece of my micro-fiction.
After a few years of cultivating my skills at OUP, I had a deep desire to create something that would allow them to work directly with clients and continue to hone my craft of editing and writing. Thus, CMG Editing was born.
In August 2025, I will graduate from St. Thomas University, Minnesota, with a Master’s of Counseling Psychology and AMFT.
Populations of interest: school-based mental health therapy, child-parent interactions, pregnant and parenting teens, and homeless and highly mobile (HHM), ODD, anxiety, depression
Therapeutic areas of interest: internal family systems (IFS), play therapy, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy
Paying It Forward
Sydney loves sharing her creativity and editing expertise with clients and is so grateful to the teachers, mentors, and communities who helped her realize her aspirations. CMG Editing began with an idea and aims to contribute each year to groups and organizations with big ideas.
Examples of such organizations include: