ABOUT ME

I  have freelanced as a proofreader and copyeditor since 1989. Clients include researchers at institutions of higher education around the  world: in the US and Canada, Europe, and China. First languages of my clients include English, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Russian, and Chinese.  I have also provided editorial services to high-tech consultancies, desktop publishers, online publishers, social issue research organizations, and individual authors. The subjects of client texts have been varied, including memoir, poetry. macroeconomics, economic equity, chemistry, biomedicine, energy technology, computer science, conflict resolution, religion and peace, environmental justice, society and technology, and child development.  

I have been final proofreader for numerous books. Titles includeTickling the Dragon’s Tail: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Scientists in the Nuclear Age  by Jeffrey L. Kaplan (Tempkin Press, 2025); Only for the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice, Leon E. Pettiway (Meishin Press, 2024);  Practical Uncertainty: Useful Ideas in Decision-Making, Randomness & AI, Hossein Pishro-Nik (Kappa Research, 2023); Even As We Speak—Selected Poems, Susan Rawlins (Class Action Ink, 2013); Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher (Orbis Books with the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, 2007); Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race. Frances E. Kendall (Routledge, 2006); and Buddhist Peacework—Creating Cultures of Peace, ed., David W. Chappell (Wisdom Publications, 2000).  

In addition to my undergraduate major in English with a concentration in linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, I hold a certificate in professional copyediting from Emerson College. I am also a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association.

Since 1975, my news articles have been published in the World Tribune, Living Buddhism, and New Moon. My poetry has appeared in such print and online publications as the MIT Faculty Newsletter, Poetry Repair Shop, BiWomen, Wavelength, and 3rd Muse Poetry Journal. From 2001 to 2007, together with another Boston writer, I published Facets, an online literary magazine which drew readers from over seventy countries and showcased the work of such emerging talents as the best-selling author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed.