Best-selling writer of poetry and nonfiction providing developmental, substantive, and copy editing, manuscript evaluations, and coaching.
I have a B.A. in literature, an M.A. in creative writing (poetry, specifically), and a PhD in literature/creative writing. I've founded and ran multiple successful literary presses and taught college writing for 12+ years; during that time I was also the assistant director of two different college writing centers. I have shaped and edited literary journals, city magazines, poetry manuscripts, nonfiction titles, vinyl records, and more.
I offer manuscript evaluation, developmental editing & coaching, substantive editing, copyediting, and any combination thereof. I enjoy working with authors at every step, from conception to finished product, and I take pride in developing a good rapport with my clients. Strong communication and focused artistic intent are my main priorities as an editor.
Innovative nonprofit literary record label/book press, which has published titles by multiple Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle award winners. Executive Director duties include curation, editing, art direction and publicity/promotion.
Co-founded and ran this national standing poetry chapbook press. Published authors included winners of The Believer Book Award and National Poetry Series. Editor duties included selecting authors, editing manuscripts, and coordinating /directing all cover art and promotional materials.
Senior editor at international standing literary journal Prairie Schooner. Duties include selecting authors for publication, editing manuscripts, and soliciting authors.
Since 2007 I've taught English at the college level, at various universities throughout the U.S. (Primarily in the West and Midwest.) Sections taught include generalized lower and upper division courses in creative writing, literature and composition, along with more specific ones such as Fiction Writing: The Apocalypse, From John Milton to Anne Sexton: Comedy in Poetry Writing, and Hip Hop and Poetry and Everything Rhythmically Else.
Eileen Myles
Leidner, Mark
Strom, Dao
Frey, Emily Kendal
Alice Notley
Rae Armantrout
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Douglas Kearney & Val Jeanty
Susan Howe / Nathaniel Mackey
Jeff Alessandrelli
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Collins, Martha, Sinclair, Safiya, Alessandrelli, Jeff, Lenhart, Lawrence, Celt, Adrienne, An-Hwei Lee, Karen, Geminder, Emily, Mastromateo, Elisa, Dawes, Kwame
Bree H, February 2023
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Camille Klump, October 2022
Angelika Capaldo, October 2022
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