Art is in the revision

My writing career began in 2014 when I landed my first staff writing position. I’ve written thousands of blogs, articles, web pages, press releases, and other content pieces for medical and legal professionals, including plastic surgeons, personal injury lawyers, orthodontists, neurologists, urologists, and ophthalmologists. Nonprofit organizations, pharmaceutical companies, marketing and advertising agencies, and small business owners have hired me to write and edit for them. My textbook on cluster headaches won two awards and is a bestseller in its genre. I have published articles in Nature and Invisible Project magazines. My fiction work includes a supernatural thriller, A Haunting Between Worlds, and published poems and short stories in literary journals, including Spill the Ink and PAN-O-PLY, with two more fiction books coming up the pike.

The editors I've had the pleasure of working with have shown me how valuable they are in helping writers fine-tune their skills without losing their voice. I fell in love with editing in 2024, when I was revising A Haunting Between Worlds and working as a senior editor in insurance news. I'm the primary editor and cover designer for a literary anthology through the Friends of the Niles District Library and currently completing the rigorous Editing certificate program at the University of Chicago with straight A's. 

My decade-long writing career and my editing credentials mean I have the technical knowledge, creative skills, and restraint required to be an excellent editor. I will never edit out an author's voice or rewrite a sentence or paragraph simply because it sounds "off." I am an active member of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) and the Professional Editors Network (PEN).