Overview
I am a freelance editor and writer with sixteen years' experience, both in and out of house, in journal and book publishing. Working across fiction, poetry and non-fiction, with an emphasis on literary writing, I am adept in structural and line editing as well as sharp-eyed proofreading; my copy-editing skills are second to none.
I co-founded Offord Road Books, a small, boutique list publishing new and exciting work in poetry, in addition to which I was lead editor at Poetry London, founding editor of multilingual, multinational arts zine La Errante, and an editor for CHEERIO Publishing, a production company and publishing house in association with the Estate of Francis Bacon. Before going freelance in 2016 I worked as an editor at Faber & Faber, helping bring landmark titles to publication from both front- and backlist.
In my freelance life I work for a number of publishers and arts organisations, including the Arvon Foundation, Bloomsbury, Canongate, the T. S. Eliot Estate, Faber, Granta, Oneworld, Pan Macmillan, 4th Estate, Persephone Books, The Poetry Review and many more. I offer manuscript assessment services and mentorship to writers hoping to brush up their book pre-submission, via the Literary Consultancy, the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Arvon Foundation and Faber Academy.
I work closely with authors, both in prose and in poetry, to make sure their manuscript is as pin-sharp as it possibly can be, its images bright and clear, its dialogue fluid and convincing, its narrative arc strong and compelling. I'm a writer myself, and I know the value of intensive, rigorous editorial feedback to a work-in-progress, and the je ne sais quoi (except often we DO know what) it takes to bring that last polish to a promising draft.
Whether you're just getting going and need to check the bare bones of a piece, you've reached a first draft and need to put it through its paces, or else you're ready to start sending out to agents and publishers, I will ensure that your work sings.
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CHEERIO Publishing
Unbound
Poetry London
Offord Road Books
Faber & Faber
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