Elizabeth Oliver – Editor

"I was in the wilderness for two years looking for an agent and a publisher for my first book, When Sunday Smiled, before I met Elizabeth. Two months after she edited my manuscript, I signed a book contract! Thank you, Elizabeth." —Andy M. Davidson

I've strengthened stories for my entire career, from editorial internships as a student to earning an MFA to managing a literary magazine and now as a freelance editor.

I bring 20 years of creative and and technical experience to every project, and my editorial practice is collaborative and professional. Language is my music, and my ear is attuned to every nuance that can make your work stronger.

"Elizabeth took my book manuscript in hand at a time when I feared having permanently lost any ability to see what I had on the page, much less what was needed. As expected, she handily sorted out numerous redundancies and mechanical gaffes. Better still, she raised astute questions that breathed more life, not just into the prose, but the story, and furthered the work in ways I had not expected. Elizabeth did much more than simply clean up a still-ragged draft. Her marvelous ability to be simultaneously rigorous with the prose and generously empathetic toward what the writer is working to accomplish gave me not just a way to go forward in my work but also the heart to do it." —Charisse Coleman