Brianna McCabe Van Dyke - Editor

Hello! I’m Brianna.

I’m a writing coach and editor and I'm fascinated with helping my clients find more joy and ease in this process, because being a writer can be hard!

Like so many writers, I used to have a tortuous relationship with my writing—I wanted to write but I found myself avoiding writing. Or writing only on special occasions when I felt inspired or when the deadline was so tight I was writing with a grimace and a pounding heart.

And good news. Now I love to write and so I do! And I've helped my clients have the same kind of freedom with their writing.

I have over a decade of editing and publishing experience, and I love helping people create a more loving and relaxed writing practice, which, no surprise, makes for wonderful books.

In addition to coaching you around any stuck or heavy areas in your writing practice, I can provide manuscript developmental editing and line editing.

For developmental editing, I specialize in nonfiction with a special interest in memoirs and manuscripts that engage topics of self-development, mindfulness, and spirituality. I also love poetry and specialize in hybrid nonfiction/poetry manuscripts.

I was the editor-in-chief of the award-winning literary magazine, Ruminate, for over thirteen years. Under my editorship, the literature published in Ruminate was reprinted in award anthologies such as The Pushcart Prize and received over a dozen notable mention awards from Best American Essays, Best New Poets, Best American Short Stories, and The Pushcart Prize.

I have a MA in English literature from Colorado State University and am a graduate of The Center for Action and Contemplation's Living School and a Martha Beck Wayfinder Coach-in-Training

If you want more writing trickster energy and a manuscript that sings, get in touch!