Overview
I've worked as a copyeditor and proofreader for 20 years across a wide variety of subjects and disciplines, but I currently focus on the academic humanities. My extensive experience with academic publishers means I know what they're looking for when submitting your manuscript for peer reviews or revising for submission to publishers.
I'm pragmatic and direct, and I always ensure schedules, fees, and expectations are clear before starting work on your project. I specialize in bibliographies and citations and enjoy making sure your project is following your preferred style guide!
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Business & Management
Education & Reference
History
Law
Political Science & Current Affairs
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Work experience
Self-employed
Dec, 2018 —
Present
I've performed copyediting services for a myriad of clients across academe, from single author-educators to large corporate entities providing copy services to large presses, including monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, and individual submissions.
SUNY Press
Apr, 2013 —
Aug, 2026
(over 13 years)
Worked in various roles at an academic university press, both on-site in Albany NY and remote. I know the many ins and outs of publishing with a university press, including the expectations of the press and what they'll be looking for when you submit or work through the production process.
Word One Copyediting and Proofing
Sep, 2011 —
Nov, 2015
(about 4 years)
Remote proofreader and copyeditor working closely with other proofing teams and writers on technical manuals and books.
UroToday International Journal
May, 2011 —
May, 2013
(about 2 years)
Effectively and efficiently compiled, edited, and published UroToday's primary scientific online journal "UroToday International Journal."
California State University, East Bay
May, 2011 —
Jan, 2013
(over 1 year)
Effectively and efficiently compiled letters of recommendation for biomedical students as part of their participation in the Preprofessional Health Program (PHAP).
Arroyo Literary Review
Jan, 2009 —
Jun, 2016
(over 7 years)
As editor in chief and design editor, compiled, solicited, and approved final content for the third and fourth issues of literary magazine, gaining national and international recognition with major writers, editors, and publishers. Performed all design and art needs for second, third, and fourth issues concurrent with duties as editor in chief.
Motorola Multimedia Design Group
Jun, 2007 —
Jun, 2010
(about 3 years)
Performed copywriting and copyediting duties as copywriter/copyeditor, and later as department lead, for various companies and services within department.
Portfolio
Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images serves as an international and interdisciplinary forum for intellectual debates concerning the politics, economics, culture, media, an... read more
Copy Editing
After the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), the poetics of incitement— found in texts originating in the West containing themes and representations of Islam hurtful to... read more
Copy Editing
Explicitly—or not—protocols determine much of what we do. Far exceeding traditional notions of “good manners,” protocols are systems of language that regulate how we relate to each other, to o... read more
Proofreading
Proofreading
There have been few times in US American history when the very concept of freedom of speech--its promise and its contradictions--has been under greater scrutiny. Guided by acclaimed artist, fi... read more
Proofreading
In contrast to recent efforts to restrict students by putting more power in the hands of parents and school officials, Ronald C. Den Otter makes a bold and rigorously argued case for respectin... read more
Copy Editing
La Gente traces the rise of the Chicana/o Movement in Sacramento and the role of everyday people in galvanizing a collective to seek lasting and transformative change during the 1960s and 1970... read more
Copy Editing
Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval among northern coastal communities and disrupting a more southern, temperate wo... read more
Copy Editing
A sweeping account of three critical weeks in Virginia when battlefield clashes and home-front strategy together reshaped the course of the Civil War. In this new volume, Ethan Rafuse continue... read more
Copy Editing
In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey—a... read more
Copy Editing
Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Sw... read more
Copy Editing
In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an... read more
Copy Editing
In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, A... read more
Copy Editing
From Shakespeare to The Simpsons, comedy has long provided both entertainment and social commentary. It may critique cultural values, undermine authority, satirize sacred beliefs, and make roo... read more
Proofreading
At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, M... read more
Proofreading
What does liberation mean for Asians at the core of an anti-Black, settler-colonial empire? This landmark book is the first to offer an Asian American theology of liberation for the present an... read more
Copy Editing
This first title in the “Law, Literature & Culture” series uses six legal disputes from the South Carolina courts to illuminate the complex legal history of race in the U.S. South from slavery... read more
Copy Editing
La Princesse de Clèves, written in 1678 by Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, countess of Lafayette, is widely known as the first modern French novel. The editors of this volumed designed it... read more
Proofreading
This book offers a lived defense of liberal education. How does a college professor, on a daily basis, help students feel the value of liberal education and get the most from that education? W... read more
Proofreading
Netprov is an emerging interdisciplinary digital art form that offers a literature-based “show” of insightful, healing satire that is as deep as the novels of the past. This accessible history... read more
Copy Editing
Most people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends. Confronting Child Sexual Abuse describes how these forces ... read more
Copy Editing
We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy. Located at the crux of these crises, sustainable cities build on the foundations and resources of democracy to make ou... read more
Copy Editing
In John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith Patrick Lacroix explores the intersection of religion and politics in the era of Kennedy’s presidency. In doing so Lacroix challenges the establish... read more
Copy Editing
Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectualToni Morrison’s novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are als... read more
Proofreading
Cultural scholar John Wills takes readers on a cultural tour of Doom Town, USA, designed to be the model 1950s American city and destroyed by an atomic bomb on live television to educate Ameri... read more
Copy Editing
Esteemed presidential historian Stephen F. Knott takes readers on a sobering tour of the lowlights in the American presidency, showing how presidents from Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump have... read more
Copy Editing
Academic pipeline programs are critical to effectively support the steady increase of diverse students entering the academy. Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Bachelor's to the Professo... read more
Copy Editing
Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and the divine-right absolutism of the Grand Siè... read more
Proofreading
"In For Emplacement Mario Blaser argues that in a world marked by increased displacement of peoples, the infrastructures created to deal with issues of displacement weaken and undermine the in... read more
Copy Editing
Hashtag or trademark, personal or collective expression, #BlackGirlMagic is an articulation of the resolve of Black women and girls to triumph in the face of structural oppressions. The online... read more
Copy Editing
In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues... read more
Copy Editing
"In this book, Bruce Oppenheimer and the late Robert Peabody analyze a key congressional leadership contest, the 1976 House Majority Leader race, and its place as a turning point in the transi... read more
Copy Editing
Patchwork Pandemic is the first ever history of how individual American states responded to the HIV/AIDS crisis--and an eyeopening look at how a fragmented federalist system creates disparitie... read more
Copy Editing
Proofreading
Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images, housed at the Academy of Film and published by Michigan Publishing, is an open access, peer-reviewed international and interdisciplin... read more
Copy Editing
In this issue Letter from the Editor - YING ZHU Research Articles Consuming the Pastoral Desire: Li Ziqi, Food Vlogging, and the Structure of Feeling in the Era of Microcelebrity - LIANG LIMIN... read more
Copy Editing
