BA, Anthropology, University of Colorado, 2005

• Ten-plus years of editing and proofreading experience for
  • Major publishers and university presses, working on academic anthropology books and textbooks
  • Medical journals and independent authors, both pre- and postsubmission, primarily in rheumatology but in other medical specialties as well
  • Magazines (scientific/technical and nonscientific/technical)
• Main reference materials used: Chicago, AP, AAA, AMA, Stedman's, Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, a variety of house style guides
• Other reference materials used: APA, MLA, Garner's Modern American Usage
• Main software used for editing: Microsoft Word (track changes), Adobe Acrobat (annotations and markups)
• Other software used for editing: InCopy, InDesign
• Many years of experience corresponding directly with authors, and communicating with editors and project managers
• Extensive experience formatting and editing tables for publication and verifying consistency of data
• Some experience creating style guides or style sheets for a particular project or for an organization
• Two years of marketing copywriting experience for academic books and textbooks in anthropology, law, medicine, and other disciplines

Copyediting and proofreading

Experienced copy editor of anthropology textbooks and academic books; academic books and textbooks in other disciplines; medical journal manuscripts, both pre- and postacceptance; and much, much more. Experienced proofreader of all of the above and more. Main areas of interest: anthropology (all fields), health and medicine, India, Hindi, linguistics, the sport of running.

I have part-time availability and can turn around shorter assignments (e.g., journal articles) relatively quickly; for longer assignments (e.g., books), I typically need at least a couple of weeks.