I am a fast, experienced, and responsive editor with over twenty years of experience working with writers at all levels. I earned my Ph.D. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015, where I taught academic writing skills to more than five hundred students. As an editor of academic and nonfiction writing, I have worked closely for ten years with authors in all fields (including computer science, biology, astrophysics, geography, sociology, math education, communication studies, literary studies, history, and anthropology, to name a few) to help them express their ideas lucidly. 

I help you pitch your work to the right level for your audience; ensure that your organization is sound and your logic compelling; help you craft sentences that are clear, coherent, and elegant; and create consistency and correctness across your entire document in whatever citation style your target journal or press requires. I have extensive experience working with ESL authors (from all over the globe: from China and Korea to India and Poland), and can help untangle complicated prose to make your writing read like the work of a native English speaker. And the writing tasks that most authors find onerous—reformatting, checking citations, fact-checking, proofreading, polishing, trimming to meet word limits—are tasks I excel at. Let me take some of those writing tasks off your plate so that you can spend your time where it's most valuable: in the lab, in the classroom, in the archives, or writing up your next manuscript or grant application.

I'm also a human being! (I don't believe in brains on sticks.) I love reading genre fiction (cozy mysteries of all types, YA, fantasy) and comic books (Marvel forever). I have a hilarious 19-year-old son and a very fluffy Akita. I take on complicated cooking projects as stress relief. I'm an adult figure skater. I have eleven tattoos and probably more to come (one an Emerson quote and another a Melville quote). I love Kids Today and the internet, and I am fascinated by fan culture—fanfiction in particular.