Theresa Noll

Theresa Noll – Editor

I specialize in editing memoirs. Let's get your story ready for the world to read.

Overview

I'm a developmental book editor with 14 years of experience in the field. The right editor for your memoir should be a person you trust with your deepest memories, dreams, passions and insecurities. I am honored when someone chooses me to play this role, and I treat every collaboration with the care and sensitivity it deserves. I have worked with philosophers, artists, activists, scholars and many others to bring their personal stories to life.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs Education & Reference History LGBTQ Non-Fiction Nature Philosophy Political Science & Current Affairs Religion & Spirituality
Languages
English (US)

Work experience

Self-employed

Dec, 2008 — Present

I work with publishers and independent authors to edit works of nonfiction. I provide support at every stage of the process, from idea creation to developmental editing to copyediting. My clients have included Seven Stories Press, Feminist Press, Seal Press, Flashpoint Press and PM Press.

Seven Stories Press

Jun, 2005 — Nov, 2008 (over 3 years)

I worked closely with authors to develop their ideas and hone their manuscripts in preparation for publication. As managing editor, I coordinated the editors, freelancers, and interns who contributed to the execution of the dozens of books published during my tenure. I also wrote cover copy, catalog copy, and publicity materials.

Portfolio

Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist (Jewish Women Writers)

Helène Aylon

Growing up an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, Helene Aylon spends her Friday nights in a sea of extended family as the Sabbath candles flicker. She dreams of escape but marries a rabbi and becomes a mother of two. Suddenly her world splits apart when she is widowed ... read more
Evolution

Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu

Now updated and presented in a smaller format with fifteen new gorgeous photographs, Evolution steps beyond the debate and presents the undeniable truth of Darwin's theory, showing through skeletons both obscure and commonplace, but always intriguing, the proc... read more
If a Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard

Jennifer Rosner

Jennifer Rosner’s revelatory memoir explores family, silence, and what it means to be heard. When her daughters are born deaf, Rosner is stunned. Then she discovers a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Ea... read more
HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life

Barbara Hammer

HAMMER! is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in th... read more
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

Jack D. Forbes

Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American poi... read more
Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

Derrick Jensen

For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, "Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?" No one ever says yes.Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industr... read more
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

Derrick Jensen

The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natura... read more
The Myth of Human Supremacy

Derrick Jensen

In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail—from the cult... read more
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

Lierre Keith

Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agriculture—causing the devastation of prairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the... read more
A Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror (For Young People Series)

Howard Zinn

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of th... read more

Theresa has 2 reviews

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Teri D.

Teri D.

Jan, 2019

This was my first experience with Reedsy.com and it could not have been better. Theresa Knoll provided an exceptional editorial review for a 275 page manuscript and a query letter with the perfect hook. She even completed the assignment a couple days early. Theresa knew exactly how to take my book to the next level by providing questions that made me dig deeper into the characters or stories. S...
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Tracy B.

Tracy B.

Jan, 2018

Theresa's sharp and incisive mind was absolutely necessary in getting my 220,000-plus-word manuscript whittled down to a manageable size. I could not have trusted this seven-year labor of love to just any editor. Theresa understood my message and mission intuitively as well as intellectually and went to work to bring out the best parts and really make them shine. Her edits were right on point a...
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