Although my love for words blossomed in early childhood, I’ve been professionally editing for a decade and a half.
I received my bachelor of arts in English with a minor in biology and started my career proofreading lecture materials for my father (a dentist), book manuscripts as an editorial intern at HarperCollins, and Tennessee Senate legislation before working full time as a book editor, a digital content editor, and now a medical editor at The University of Texas at Austin and the managing editor of Annals of the Child Neurology Society. I wake up looking forward to learning and tackling the day’s challenges.
As a book editor, I’ve worked with publishers ranging from Harvard Business Publishing to The MIT Press, and I’ve collaborated with many New York Times bestselling authors, including Alice Randall, Barbara Wood, Dennis McDougal, Candy Spelling, Peter Kiernan, and the Baseball Prospectus team of editors and writers. My clients’ books have been featured on the TODAY show and in the New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, ELLE, and Publishers Weekly, to name a few.
Today, I spend most of my time editing, researching, fact-checking, copywriting, and providing art direction for a broad range of clients. Projects I’ve worked on have appeared on multiple websites and in publications such as Pediatrics in Review, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Pediatric Neurology, Epilepsy and Behavior, and Diagnostics. I enjoy taking on projects that are challenging, fulfilling, and meaningful.
In my free time, I love being outdoors, traveling, running, baking (I’ve been told my chocolate chip cookies can create world peace), drinking a strong cup of coffee or tea, watching a good show or movie with my husband, and reading—usually thrillers, Southern literature, and British literature.