Editorial Services

My joy is to work with writers to shape their manuscripts and help identify their current goals and what it takes to reach them. I am available for prepping novels for agent querying, editing short stories, essays, or novel excerpts for publication, MFA applications, or fellowship/residency submissions. My services can be employed to meet you in any stage of your writing: I am available for reading early drafts and providing developmental feedback, or at the polishing stages, for proofreading, fact checking, and line edits. Or I can simply be a fresh set of eyes when you want encouraging, honest feedback and a nudge to keep going. Please contact me for more information about rates and availability. I look forward to reading your work. 

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Since 2019, I've worked for the literary journal, Shenandoah, where I apprentice with Beth Staples, my mentor since 2015. As the Fiction Editor, I read hundreds of submissions every year, and work closely with a handful of authors each issue to prepare their manuscripts for publication, as well as proofreading, fact checking, and copyediting issues.

 

I earned my MFA in Creative Writing from UNC Wilmington, where I was a fellow in The Publishing Lab for three years. I've been lucky to staff Ecotone and Lookout Books, where I gained editing wisdom from Anna Lena Phillips Bell and Emily Smith. I've been a proofreader for two issues of Chautauqua journal, as well as lead fact checker for two titles with Lookout Books. 

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My editing skills and the craft of providing generous and constructive feedback have been finely honed at juried conferences and workshops I've attended: LitCamp with Sarah McGrath, Tin House with Steve Almond, One Story with Patrick Ryan, five summers at Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Workshop with Luis Alberto Urrea, Elizabeth Rush, Nathaniel Rich, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, and Ramona Ausubel, Writing x Writers with Pam Houston, and Summer Literary Seminars with Dawn Raffel and Laurie Stone. I'm also indebted to David Schuman who provided excellent instruction in Flash Fiction, and was my undergraduate fiction instructor at Washington University in St. Louis, and I hold the deepest gratitude always to my generous, superwoman thesis committee: Rebecca Lee, Nina de Gramont, and Wendy Brenner.