Daniel Johnson – Editor

I've spent about 12 years working closely with writers, mostly in the spaces where language gets personal—poetry, spiritual nonfiction, memoir, and comics. My instinct as an editor has always been to figure out what someone is reaching for before I start suggesting changes, which I think makes me more useful on a proofreading pass too. I notice things at the level of voice and tone just as much as grammar and typos.

My background includes developmental editing, copy editing, and proofreading on 100+ books across a wide range of genres, with a focus on non-fiction, poetry, and graphic novels. I spent a year as editorial assistant at Fantagraphics Books, where my credits include two Eisner Award-winning titles. More recently I've been proofreading regularly for international indie comics publishers, with many projects involving translated or non-native English text, which is an area I've worked in extensively and find genuinely interesting.

I'm currently offering proofreading and selective copy editing. I'm drawn especially to comics and graphic novels, poetry collections with a strong narrative or thematic structure (extra points for epic poems and poetry that involves sophisticated rhythm or rhyme), and manuscripts by non-native English writers who need their work to feel natural rather than just correct.