After earning a BA in Women’s Studies & Literature from Brown University and an MFA in English & Creative Writing from Mills College, I started editing because I wanted to use my hands to work with my favorite material: language. Two decades later, I’m still doing this work, and I’m a lot better at it!
I used the first decade to hone my skills and gain broad editing experience with everything from educational text for museums to student application essays. After a specialty in scholarly work started to emerge, I found myself wanting to get back into schools—to meet academic writers earlier in their process—so I earned a Teaching Adult Learners Graduate Certificate from Portland State University. This led me to Marylhurst University, where I worked as the sole graduate writing tutor for three years.
In 2019 I became the style editor for the Doctor of Education in Leadership (EdD) program at Lewis & Clark College, and I’ve provided final style editing for every dissertation completed in that program since. I began teaching in the program in 2021 , and I’ve now helped five years’ worth of students to organize and write their literature reviews, construct their conceptual frameworks, and complete their dissertation proposals.
In 2022, the University of Oregon hired me as the dedicated graduate writing coach across all UO Eugene doctoral programs. This position allowed me to provide dissertation coaching, copy editing, and style editing to UO students throughout the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. I am now offering these services to undergraduate and graduate students at UO Portland.
My freelance business has also connected me with academic writers from universities around the world. So when I say I’ve worked with over 250 scholars, that’s a real and careful head count!
In my second decade as an editor, I’ve also begun to seek projects in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that reflect my reading interests: female & nonbinary & queer-identified authors and protagonists, autofiction/New Narrative, and science communication. I’ve edited a number of higher-ed textbooks, and I’ve continued to take general editing projects that are a good fit for me.
I live in Portland, Oregon, where I like to go on evening walks, take pictures of the sky that never leave my phone, go to the river, watch comedies with my daughter, hang out with friends and do nothing together, go to loud shows, and try to keep up with the world. Every morning I work a little on the book I’m writing, which is about Chris Kraus, Kierkegaard, early 60s rock ‘n’ roll, and female subjectivity.
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