Elizabeth Wood – Editor

Freelance developmental editor, copyeditor, and proofreader. I began working for professors and scientists at Stanford University, where I provided editorial assistance for a number of memoir projects, and then quickly expanded to provide freelance services as an editor for magazines in the San Francisco are, including 7x7 Magazine and California Home and Design, and in advertising campaigns spearheaded by Wunderman, among others. Inspired by the the creativity of friends and colleagues, I used my professional experience to ound an arts and culture magazine--YESYESYES Magazine--with local businesswomen in San Francisco's Mission District. I also co-founded and edited the San Francisco Journal, a literary publication that featured creative work by visual artists and musicians. I left these publications when I moved to New York to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing at NYU, where I continued freelancing for arts and fashion editorial and expanded my experience in editing fiction and nonfiction work.

Solicit, manage, edit, and proofread music features for The Rumpus, a widely read cultural commentary site founded in 2008. Articles include album reviews, interviews, editorials, blog posts, and more. Manage site music content and article lead time, and maintain resource and writer databases.

Served as Senior Editor for the Gravity Probe B Experiment Special Volume, a book of 22 papers on the many aspects of the GP-B experiment, which sent a satellite into space in 2004 with the aim of empirically testing Einstein's theory of general relativity. Contributed substantive and copy edits for each paper in the volume, working with the authors to increase layperson readability of these very compelling scientific texts.

Acted as an intern at the McCormick & Williams agency so as to gain professional exposure to the New York publishing market. Edited solicited manuscripts, providing overall feedback as well as detailed and specific suggestions regarding opportunities to expand upon characterization, sense of place and voice, as well as troubleshooting issues in narrative structure and consistency. Edited a number of nonfiction and fiction books based on suggestions given by publisher, making significant changes in book structure and tone that succeeded in satisfying both publisher and authorial demands.