I edit!
I edit short- and long-form fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. I will edit yours, too!
books:
(Hachette, 2022) by Elissa Bassist
As freelance editor and very-close-reader I gave developmental notes, line edits, punch-ups, and ran fact checks over multiple rounds for the full-length manuscript of this darkly comical, insightful, research-driven memoir.
(Penguin Random House, 2022)
by J. Malcolm Garcia
I copy edited, line edited, and offered structural notes for this tender collection of literary reporting on the years 2001–2015 Garcia spent in and out of Afghanistan.
(Fomite Press, 2021) by J. Malcolm Garcia
I copy edited, line edited, and offered structural notes for this essay collection that chronicles refugees and immigrants’ stories of struggle, strength, and life at the border.
essays & interviews:
“Hot for Epistolary Poetry” (Guernica, 2021) by A.E. Osworth
“I Have No Choice But to Revise” (Handwritten, 2016) by Keith Baldwin
“Permanent Ink for Self-Love’s Sake” (Handwritten, 2015) by Mickie Meinhardt
I copy edit!
I’ve been a copy editor of multigenre work at Guernica since 2018.
I can copy edit for you!
samples from Guernica:
“David’s Nipples” (2023), poetry by Wayne Koestenbaum
“Blackberries” (2023), fiction by Rumena Bužarovska,
in translation by Steve Bradbury“Carolyn Chen: ‘Buddhism has found a new institutional home in the West: the corporation’” (2022), interview by Judith Hertog with Carolyn Chen
“The Future in Catastrophic Times” (2020), essay by Joseph Osmundson
“Enemies of the Public” (2020), reportage by Chika Oduah
“Anne of Cleves” (2019), fiction by Brandon Taylor
I write!
For anything from ghost-writing and article churning to copywriting and brand management, I’ve got you.