Pamela Horn

Pamela Horn – Editor

Editing text to strengthen impact is my skill. Creating engaging cohesive culture, history, science, and food narratives are my specialties.

Overview

I bring a rare combination of deep technical editorial expertise and genuine insight to every project. I am a partner who understands how to make every piece of content resonate authentically with your audience across all platforms. My collaborative approach transforms the editorial process from a transaction into a relationship built on trust, responsiveness, and mutual respect. Whether guiding as a project editor, shaping vision in a conceptual edit, or refining content as a line and copyeditor, I bring both gracious professionalism and exacting standards to the table.

Services
Non-Fiction
Architecture Children’s Non-Fiction Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits Design Fashion & Textiles Humanities & Social Sciences
Languages
English (US)
Awards
  • 2025 Society of Architectural Historians Exhibition Catalogue Award
  • 50 Books | 50 Covers Design Awards
Certifications
  • 2023 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)

Work experience

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Oct, 2012 — Present
Supervises Cross-Platform Content, Interpretation, Digital and Emerging Media, and Audio/Visual, Publishes print and digital books, museum website, in-gallery exhibition didactics. Reviews and edits text for conceptual strength, engaging narratives and storytelling, accessible language and format.

Sterling Publishing Company

Apr, 2002 — Sep, 2012 (over 10 years)
Conceptualized, developed, wrote, and edited a range of distinctive non-fiction books, Conceptualized and oversaw the design of every title to provide tactile, visual, and enticing book experiences. Categories include art, architecture, design, lifestyle, photography, history, science, travel and exploration, and food and wine. Approximately 24 books/year including licensed, branded collaborations with well-known museums and institutions.

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.

Aug, 1994 — Dec, 2001 (over 7 years)
Began with the company in its start-up phase and grew into managing the publishing list of original books of light reference, humor, cooking, sports, music, history, art, architecture, and entertainment. The title count grew to more than 150 front- and backlist books during my tenure. Hands-on editorial work including conceptualized, authoring, editing, proofreading, and indexing.

Portfolio

Design Is Storytelling

Lupton, Ellen

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Developmental Editing Copy Editing
Developmental Editing
Making Design: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collections

Brown, Susan

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Developmental Editing
Developmental Editing
Developmental Editing
Developmental Editing Copy Editing
The New York Bartender's Guide

Berk, Sally Ann

Black Dog & Leventhal

Developmental Editing
Champagne & Caviar & Other Delicacies

Sutton, Judith C.

Black Dog & Leventhal

Developmental Editing Copy Editing
Beauty: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Lupton, Ellen

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Developmental Editing
Willi Smith: Street Couture

Cunningham Cameron, Alexandra

Rizzoli Electa

Developmental Editing Copy Editing
Developmental Editing Copy Editing Editorial Assessment
The Senses: Design Beyond Vision

Lupton, Ellen

Princeton Architectural Press

Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment
Developmental Editing Copy Editing
The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

Murphy, Michael P.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment
Copy Editing
Developmental Editing
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How Posters Work

Lupton, Ellen

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Developmental Editing Copy Editing
Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment
Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century

Cunningham Cameron, Alexandra

The MIT Press

Developmental Editing Editorial Assessment

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