About Me

I'm a professional editor and writer who has been helping people tell their stories and educate others for over twenty five years. There are hundreds of great authors that I've worked with who are poets, businesspeople, historians, professors, and scientists. Most are leaders in their industries or disciplines. Not all are great writers. I help them convey their ideas in a way that makes sense to the reader, but keeps their voice.

I grew up in beautiful Santa Barbara, California, and studied English and Philosophy at Tufts University and Oxford University. While in college I started working part-time at the publisher Houghton Mifflin, in Boston, where I began to learn about the publishing business, and realized I was good at it and liked it.

After college, I lived in New York City for fourteen years, editing books for the Trade and Higher Education markets at W. W. Norton, John Wiley & Sons, and Macmillan. After many years on the East Coast, I moved back to California, and currently live in Los Angeles, where I work remotely for publishers and individuals in need of help editing, writing, or publishing their work.