My Background

I began working as a freelance copy editor and proofreader in 2004. My first clients included the academic journal Literature and Medicine and the literary magazine Tin House. In 2005, I became an assistant editor at Tin House Books and quickly moved on to acquisitions and developmental editing.

Over my career I have edited novels and short story collections and copy edited novels, short stories, articles, essays, and poetry. I taught developmental editing in Portland State University’s masters in publishing program. I was a faculty member of Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) Saint Petersburg in 2007 and 2008 and SLS Montreal in 2011. And I mentored participants of the Tin House Summer Workshop, providing detailed feedback on novels and short story collections. During my time at Tin House, books I edited won the Giller Prize, the Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction, and the Oregon Book Award for Fiction.

As a copy editor, I have worked with authors as varied as Alice Munro, Etgar Keret, Ursula K. Le Guin, Anthony Doerr, Tayari Jones, Karen Russell, and Jim Shepard. In my free time, I volunteer with literacy and education programs serving the immigrant and refugee population in Portland, Oregon.