While editing for Polyphony, I was also working as a stable hand.

About Me

I’ve always been the friend who edited everyone else’s homework for fun. My first experience with real editing was with Polyphony Lit, a literary magazine for high schoolers. There I learned my first, and perhaps biggest, lesson: tact. I have always been so passionate about grammar and diction, and as a teenager I saw everything as black and white, correct or incorrect. This made my comments a little blunt. At Polyphony, where I edited poetry and short stories, I grew to understand the importance of maintaining an author’s vision and writing style, and learned to empathize with the special connection writers have with their work. Sometimes changing a vital sentence or removing a chapter can feel like cutting off an extremity. And sometimes the traditions of English grammar need to be sacrificed (gasp!) for the sake of art.

I received my undergraduate degree from Bates College, where I joined the literary magazine immediately, and was co-Editor-in-Chief by the end of sophomore year. The magazine, Snaggletooth, was the great love of my college days. We published mostly poetry and short stories like Polyphony, as well as a lot of art, and occasionally opinion essays and other forms of creative writing. Snag, as we affectionately called it, taught me so many unexpected things—like advertising to encourage submissions, event planning for poetry readings and workshops, and team management. In the summers, I worked as an editorial intern or volunteer for various organizations, including StudyBreaks, a college student-focused journalistic magazine, and the nonprofit Abuse Refuge Org (ARO), where I edited marketing copy.

After graduation, I completed a copy editing certification course with Emerson College, during which I delighted in the three-hour-long grammar lessons, and my friends and family begged me to stop excitedly sharing what I’d learned about the difference between the em and en dashes. Through that program and some brief informational engagements with Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, I filled in a lot of the gaps in my knowledge regarding the publishing industry.

Now I’m on the hunt for projects to edit! If you have written or are thinking about writing an article, book, or creative writing collection, please reach out, even if you just have questions I might be able to answer. I love what I do, and I love bringing writers’ visions to life.