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About Me

I've spent two decades in the writing business, working with literary agents, publishing houses, and literary magazines. Now, I help writers strengthen their manuscripts and bring their drafts to the best form. I especially love with literary prose, historical fiction, and emotionally layered work, but have edited everything from poetry collections to motivational non-fiction to sci fi.

 

My editing focuses on clarity, rhythm, imagery, structure, and line-level precision without ever flattening your voice. I work with you to bring your best art forward.

I am...

a published poet with awards

a novelist with 20 years of agented experience

a former managing editor of a Chicago literary magazine

a featured speaker at writing conventions

an author represented by a major literary agency

a recipient of a PEN America grantI

a three-time honorable mention for the Casey Shay Prize

an honorable mention for the Missouri Review’s Editor’s Prize,
&

dedicated to honest feedback---and your career!

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My work has appeared in

RHINO 1990 (Maiden name)
The Atlanta Review Spring/Summer 2000 (Maiden name)

Potpourri Vol. 9 No. 3 (Maiden name)

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review No. 11 (Maiden name)

Wisconsin Review Vol. 32 Issue 3 (Maiden name)

The Lyric Issue 7 (Maiden name)Yemassee vol 20.2
Potomac Review issue 54

Naugatuck River Review Issue 12

border crossing vol. 4

Little Patuxent Review Summer 2014

Little Patuxent Review Winter 2026 

Conclave: A Journal of Character Issue 1

Ginger Piglet Issue 4

The Woven Tale Press

Sliver of Stone

The Ilanot Review

Fickle Muses

Josephine Quarterly

Damselfly

Burntdistrict

Rose Red Review

Linden Ave.

Extracts

Scholars and Rogues

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