I’m an editor and proofreader who believes we all write better in community.

I remember the first time I showed up to a writing critique group. They met in the back of a grocery store, I didn’t know anyone there, and I’d only shown my writing to a few people before. I couldn’t have picked these people out as writers from a lineup of strangers. And I couldn’t have known that they, and the other writers I’ve met since, were going to be a big part of how I would learn to develop a writing practice, one that could eventually get me published. That first day, what I knew was that they were kind enough to set time aside to listen to each other.

I still feel lucky to have landed in that room. I’ve learned that I do my best work in a community where listening comes first — when all the analytical sharing about how to get better happens in a context where we’re committed to each others’ growth.

Working Together

My collaborators are communicating what matters most. You use storytelling to engage audiences with your health communications, humanities scholarship, or nonprofit outreach.

Together, we shine the spotlight on your most important ideas. Depending on what your project needs, I might hunt typos, find the right words, or organize sentences. Or we might explore the narrative structure that best serves your story.

I am experienced with the Chicago Manual of Style and AP Stylebook, which are the two style guides most familiar to American readers. As a copy editor, I’m not interested in convincing you to like the Oxford comma. The benefit of following one of these style guides the size of a dictionary is that it allows for consistency without you having to make a lot of decisions about details. If you want to weigh in, I’m happy to keep track of your house-style choices.

Word Nerdery

I got started working with words as a language teacher. I completed the UC Berkeley Extension professional editing sequence in May 2022.