Overview
"Rachel is, quite simply, the best copy editor I've ever worked with. I can't recommend her highly enough." —Allison Arieff, editorial director at SPURI help people express themselves with clarity, integrity, and personality. Whether I'm copyediting an academic monograph or polishing prose for a nonprofit’s website, my goal is to eliminate errors, streamline text, and ensure consistency—all while letting the author’s (or organization’s) personality shine through.My favorite punctuation mark is the em dash, and I am a lifelong advocate for the serial comma.
Services
Non-Fiction
Architecture
Design
Earth, Space, & Environmental Sciences
History
Home & Garden
Humanities & Social Sciences
LGBTQ Non-Fiction
Nature
Parenting & Families
Political Science & Current Affairs
Languages
English (US)
Work experience
Self-employed
Jan, 1998 —
Present
I provide an array of editorial and strategic communications services to nonprofits, publishers, and more:
• Write and edit website copy, marketing materials, and fundraising materials
• Copyedit and line edit white papers, magazines, books, websites, and collateral material
• Write articles and reviews for publications like Bitch magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Women's Review of Books, Mother Jones, and more
• Partial client list:
Alaska Journal of Anthropology
ChangeLab Solutions
Dwell magazine
Left Coast Press
Peachpit Press
Solv LLC
SPUR
Thinkshift Communications
Tides
UNICEF
University of Alaska Press
U.S. National Park Service
Education Outside
Jun, 2014 —
Jan, 2016
(over 1 year)
Lead the communications strategy for a fast-growing, innovative, mission-driven nonprofit. Partnered with senior leadership team to guide and strengthen the organization's position in the field, influence, and brand. Responsible for all digital and print communications, including marketing materials, social media strategy and implementation, and stakeholder outreach.
Education Outside
Jan, 2013 —
Jun, 2014
(over 1 year)
Bitch Magazine
Jan, 2002 —
Jan, 2007
(about 5 years)
Generated story ideas; worked with writers to develop and edit articles; copyedited and proofread articles; maintained production schedule; hired and supervised freelancers.
Portfolio
Michael Flint is the heir hunter of last resort. A forensic genealogist and former clandestine agent specializing in high-end private investigations, he promises clients he can find anyone, anytime, anywhere—dead or alive. Laura Oakwood stands to lose more tha... read more
Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly into tomorrow. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988 Friendship... read more
This one-of-a-kind guide provides a crash course in the laws governing the President of the United States. In engaging and accessible prose, two law professors explain the principles that inform everything from President Washington's disagreements with Congres... read more
The child of billionaire tech CEO Veronica Beaumont is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. With his health rapidly declining, she hires Michael Flint, the heir hunter of last resort, to do the impossible: find Josh Hallman, the boy’s father, to prov... read more
For millennia, “the North” has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions—empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history—it has moved to t... read more
More than just great food writing, this long-overdue rebuttal to the notion that all women are on a diet celebrates food with grace, wit, and gusto. Women are reclaiming their pots and pans, but it’s a new era in the kitchen. Today’s generation of women is put... read more
Ann Chandonnet brings us a rollicking history of gold rush food complete with hearty recipes ranging from sourdough flapjacks to stewed porcupine. From miners meals and home remedies to holiday fare, beverages, and housekeeping, Gold Rush Grub follows the trai... read more
In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms., Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pl... read more
Founded in 1944 by Helen Valentine, Seventeen magazine was the first modern “teen magazine.” An immediate success, it became iconic in establishing the tastes and behaviors of successive generation of teen girls covering the last half of the 20th century. Kell... read more
Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U.S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer’s engaging prose affirms his passionate c... read more
This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the identific... read more
What happens when the American dream collides head-on with a nation’s dependence on fossil fuels? Oil and Water, a novel by Mei Mei Evans, focuses on precisely this question. Starting with a star-crossed supertanker, a wayward fishing boat, and a well-known ha... read more
For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the height of ... read more
In 1974, twenty-four-year-old Bill Sherwonit stepped into a whole new life—deep in the Alaska wild. In this engaging essay collection, Sherwonit now recollects his adventures and trials of his more than thirty years in the Alaska wilderness. From the streets o... read more
In scenes eerily parallel to the culture of fear inspired by our current War on Terror, A Need to Know explores the clandestine history of a CIA family defined, and ultimately destroyed, by their oath to keep toxic secrets during the Cold War. When Bud Goodall... read more
What do you do when a young moose calf wants to dine on your freshly planted Lady’s Mantle for lunch? What plants can handle a summer of nearly endless sun? How do you harness the wild beauty of the north for your own backyard? There’s a Moose in My Garden is ... read more
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