Academic, Fiction
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Bio
I am an American writer living in Montreal with my family. I have a BA from Simon’s Rock College of Bard and an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of the Arts. My writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and American Short Fiction (online), among other places. I attended Bread Loaf in 2018 and again in 2024, with a scholarship. In 2020, I did a winter residency at Banff. In 2019, I taught an 8-week course on very short fiction at the QWF. In 2022, I received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to finish a novel.
For the past ten years, I have also used my writing skills to help other writers and to prepare various kinds of prose for publication. I have worked with numerous academics, especially in the fields of music and political science, editing whole dissertations, papers, chapters, job letters, and grant applications. I am the English-language copy editor for Circuit, a bilingual music journal published by the Université de Montréal. I copyedited several titles for Nouvella, a small press. I have copyedited and mentored several fiction writers and graphic novelists whose accomplishments include being nominated for the Journey Prize, winning grants from the Canada Council and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, publication in the Iowa Review and the Boston Globe, signing with literary agents, and publishing books. I have edited a wide range of writing with particular requirements, intended for different audiences, including a cookbook, a privately-printed book for a trade group, and an issue of EnRoute, Air Canada’s in-flight magazine.
Services Offered
I offer manuscript evaluation and copyediting. The purpose of a manuscript evaluation is to give an overall assessment of an advanced work in progress, identifying its strengths and weaknesses. If you’ve written a book— long-form fiction or nonfiction, or a collection of stories or essays— and you’ve made it as good as you can on your own, you may need a manuscript evaluation to truly complete it. I will read your project closely and give you thorough feedback on what I see happening in terms of content, structure, and style. I will point out weaknesses and make suggestions for improvement. I can’t offer evaluation for children’s fiction, genre fiction, or poetry.
If your project needs closer attention, I offer copyediting. The purpose of copyediting is to polish your prose. I will find and correct errors. I will offer solutions for unclear or awkward constructions. When I copyedit, I focus on sentences: I want your sentences to be readable, and I want them to sound like you. For clients using AI tools, I can look for mistakes and hallucinations and help humanize the text.
Special Interests
I love working with literary fiction, especially novels and novellas.
