Education & Experience

 

I hold an MA in Written Communication and a BS in English Language and Literature from Eastern Michigan University. From 2010–2016, I taught a wide range of writing courses at DePaul University.

An active member of the Editorial Freelancers Association and ACES: The Society for Editing, I have completed training in advanced copyediting and am an Intermediate Member at CIEP: The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading.

Books and articles I edited and proofread have been published by The MIT Press, Rowman and Littlefield, University of California Press, Duke University Press, Journal of Consumer Culture, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems, The American Enterprise Institute, and elsewhere.

My creative writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of Net, and was selected as notable in The Best American Essays.

Always on the lookout for a good story, I also work as a freelance writer for businesses, organizations, and publications.

 

Styles & Areas of Expertise

 

I am familiar with the following style guides:

  • Modern Language Association, 8th Ed. (MLA)

  • The Associated Press Stylebook, 2024 Ed. (AP)

  • American Psychological Association, 6th Ed. (APA)

  • The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Ed. (CMOS)

I work with a wide range of topics but have expertise or long-term interest in:

  • education

  • rhetoric and composition

  • ecology, climate change, environmental and conservation issues

  • African American literature

  • politics

  • human rights

  • yoga, fitness, wellness, self-help

  • psychology, mental health, addiction, recovery

  • parenting

  • urbanism, especially public transit

  • religion: Buddhist philosophy, Christian theology

  • contemporary poetry and criticism

  • feminism and gender studies

  • music: R&B, hip-hop, jazz, rock, electronic

  • journalism

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More about me Former midnight waitress, high school teacher, rhetoric professor. Bona fide people person, wacky yoga teacher, funk and soul fanatic. I grew up on Lake Huron and have written about touching a lake sturgeon and having misconceptions about whales. I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan with my husband and son.