Jeff Alessandrelli
Jalessandrelli1 [at] gmail [dot] com
jeffalessandrelli.net/

I'm the Executive Director of the non-profit book press/record label Fonograf Editions, which has published books/records by Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, John Ashbery, Nathaniel Mackey, Mark Leidner, and Harmony Holiday, among others. I also do a significant amount of freelance editing, with a focus on poetry, fiction and nonfiction. I'm adept at editing a wide variety of texts (traditional and hybrid), in a wide variety of styles.

Jennifer Alton
jennyalton09 [at] gmail [dot] com
jenniferalton.com

Jennifer Alton is a freelance book editor with over six years of experience in the publishing industry and a passion for literary fiction and genre-defying, curious nonfiction. Her acquisitions for Counterpoint Press have been named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Time magazine, and longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.

She’s interested in literary fiction that combines innovative language with an energetic, character driven plot. She is always looking for deeply researched, story-forward nonfiction that can hold its own amid our frenetic news cycle.

S.J. Buckley
sbuckle101 [at] gmail [dot] com
sjbuckley.com

I'm a writer and editor based in the Washington, D.C. area. I was the nonfiction editor of So to Speak journal for two years and have guest edited essays for Phoebe journal. In 2017 and 2018, I was an editorial intern at Tin House Books. In 2021, I received an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University, where I was the nonfiction fellow. I'm currently balancing writing and freelance editing with a 9-to-5 technical editing job. I'm looking to work on innovative books and short-form pieces, with a particular interest in hybrid/lyrical nonfiction writing.

Jimmy Cajoleas
jimmy.cajoleas [at] gmail [dot] com
jimmycajoleas.com

My favorite books prioritize language and character over anything else. I’m a sucker for a good tale, but beautiful writing and a powerful style can put me in a state that nothing else can. My goal in editing is always to make sure the book feels like a coherent whole, that it never drags, and the story as a sequence of narrative events stays clear and well-paced without sacrificing style. 

As for qualifications, I've done freelance novel and memoir editing for many authors as well as proofreading for Mysterious Press and American Mystery Classics, among others. I've also spent time doing reader reports for several agencies. I've also published five middle grade and young adult horror-adjacent novels and short stories in various magazines over the years. 

Sabrina Canepa
sabrinamcanepa [at] gmail [dot] com

I recently graduated from CU Boulder’s creative writing MFA. I am accustomed to editing all sorts of writing—from short stories to novel length fiction and creative nonfiction. I was also an assistant to Stephen Graham Jones. I’d love to be involved any way I can!

Katherine Caron
kc [at] indolenteden [dot] com
katherinecaron.com

I’m a developmental editor and book whisperer. 

Lauren Christiansen
Lauren.L.Christiansen [at] gmail [dot] com
laurenc3.wordpress.com

Talk to me about your nonfiction of various stripes –– creative and hybrid works, memoir, projects about the natural world, cultural commentary, the technologies of contemporary life, essay collections, etc. Trade projects are great, as are books that walk the border between trade and academic. Or shoot me a message about your smart, voice-driven literary/upmarket fiction. In any genre, I am not afraid of the left-field or the unconventional just as I am comfortable with the straightforward. 

My experience editing books largely comes from my tenure working as an editorial associate at a literary agency. There, I develop and edit nonfiction book proposals and fiction manuscripts which have gone on to sell both to big 5 houses and indie presses. Additional experience comes from freelance editing of fiction and nonfiction projects at various stages of development, usually working directly with authors. I have MPhil in Contemporary American Literature from the University of Cambridge, where I was an editor at Cambridge Review of Books.

Noah Ciubotaru
noah.ciubotaru [at] gmail [dot] com
linkedin.com/in/noah-ciubotaru/

I'm an editor based in Vancouver, interested in working on adult nonfiction manuscripts. In the summer, I'll be completing my Certificate in Publishing at Toronto Metropolitan University, where I've focused on copy, stylistic, and substantive editing. I have provided editorial services for a scholarly monograph, and I would be eager to work on writing with Big Ideas at the center. As a freelance culture writer, I am also strongly suited for works of cultural and sociological analysis. Even if your book doesn't seem to fall in any of these highlighted categories, please email me and tell me more about it!

Coleman Dues
colemandues [at] gmail [dot] com
colemandues.com

I have experience in both editing and copyediting (as well as in other parts of the publishing process) for a major literary nonprofit, working extensively on print and digital publications. I am open to working on poetry, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, speculative fiction, and most other types of literature.

Chelsey Drysdale
chelsey [at] drysdaleeditorial [dot] com
drysdaleeditorial.com

I have more than twenty years of experience as an editor and writer. I am a memoirist and essayist who loves collaborating with other writers to realize their vision for their own nonfiction projects. I offer developmental editing, line editing, and copyediting services, with knowledge of The Chicago Manual of Style. My essays have been published in The Washington Post, Brevity, The Coachella Review, and others. As a freelancer, I would love to build relationships with independent presses.

Kate Finegan
kehfinegan [at] gmail [dot] com
katefinegan.ink

I'm a developmental and copy editor in both my day job and my side hustle. I've served as novel/novella editor for Split/Lip Press since 2020 and was previously editor-in-chief of Longleaf Review. I'm a technical editor of computer programming materials by day, and I also work with freelance clients on academic articles and MBA applications. I am also open to IP/ghostwriting projects.

Tyler Ford
tywrent [at] gmail [dot] com
myfriendtyler.com

Caitlin Forst
forstjcaitlin [at] gmail [dot] com

I curate work from contemporary artists and writers to shape and execute new publishing concepts both in my independent editorial projects and with publishers. Additionally, I am now the online editor for the publisher Archway Editions’ literary journal. I especially like reading and editing experimental writing of any length. As a freelance editor, I provide developmental feedback and comprehensive line editing for book-length and short prose projects. I am also available to consult on literary event programming. You can reach me over email. I live in Los Angeles and am always looking for collaborators.

Caroline Foulkrod
catherine.foulkrod [at] gmail [dot] com
catherinefoulkrod.com

I am able to work as an editor, ghostwriter, workshop producer, copy editor, copywriter, researcher and a fact-checker. I'm open to most opportunities, and am excited by experimental projects backed by guts and passion. I'm looking to help writers and publishers at any phase of their processes. I am also great at helping artists write artist’s statements and grant proposals. In the past, I've provided editorial, research, and copyediting services to Harper’s Magazine, Tyrant Books, Penguin Random House, Open Road Media, the PEN American Center, and GQ Magazine.

Christopher Frizzelle
christopher.frizzelle [at] gmail [dot] com 
frizzlit.com

Most of my experience is in editing creative nonfiction between 1,000 and 10,000 words, although I would consider larger projects, as well as fiction projects. I was the editor-in-chief of The Stranger from 2007-2016, during which time we won a Pulitzer Prize for a feature story I conceptualized, assigned, line-edited, and published. Two years later, we were a finalist for another Pulitzer Prize, that one in art criticism, for a group of essays by our art critic. I also have experience editing full manuscripts.

Jen Hyde
jen.hyde [at] gmail [dot] com
jenhyde.com

I'm a former poetry editor at The Bellevue Literary Review and a former chapbook publisher with ND/SA with a keen eye for big and small picture questions when it comes to book manuscripts. I also help writers with grant applications. I'm personally interested in first generation and multiethnic stories and stories about families.

Hermione Hoby
hermione [at] hermionehoby [dot] com 
hermionehoby.com

I love doing consults on novel manuscripts and offer various tiers of involvement depending on a writer's needs. My approach is one of deep editorial engagement, but I also bring some degree of coaching to the process - helping a writer to fully realize their vision for their book, grow in confidence, and hone their voice. I can be reached over email!

Samantha Kalinowski
samaykay912 [at] gmail [dot] com

I have experience editing and assisting in improving a wide range of works. I've edited everything from Middle-Grade Fantasy to poetry. I’ve spent the majority of my college career editing my fellow student’s works, on a strict schedule with defined deadlines. I’ve even spent a semester as an assistant editor of the Brooklyn Rail. It’s where I learned how to copy edit and to curate a collection of works. I am looking for an entry level job that allows me to grow and learn as an editor.

Hillary Leftwich 
alchemyauthorservices [at] gmail [dot] com
alchemyauthorservices.com

My mission is to make your words not only seen but heard. A good editor helps the writing to become better, not different. I am an editor who will never dislocate a piece of writing from its original authenticity regarding race, creed, or sexual orientation. With years of experience working with and amplifying a diversity of voices, Alchemy Author Services is a liberated space dedicated to writers and to fulfilling their dreams.

Lindz McLeod
lindsey.mcleod [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] uk
lindzmcleod.co.uk 

I have years of experience with freelance editing — developmental, line, and copy —  as well as coaching and mentoring. I'd love to work on small press books as well as anthologies. 

E.A. Midnight
emma [at] eamidnight [dot] com
eamidnight.com/services

The most important thing you can do for your writing is find an editor who wants to help you craft your work into the best version of itself. I am an editor, educator, and web designer who would love to help you do just that. I work on everything from conceptual development to line editing to larger work review to one-on-one mentoring. I am happy to work with any genre, and offer several types of creative writing editing options, as well as professional editing. I have a BA in Sociology from Binghamton University, and hold an MFA in Creative Writing, with a focus on Hybrid, Memoir, and Poetry from Goddard College. I have worked on journals as both a genre editor and a copy editor. I am currently serving as an editor for the literary project, The Champagne Room. I am thrilled to work with all folx, especially emerging writers, interested in honoring their work through the collaborative and transformative process that editing can be. 

Caleb Milne
calebrmilne [at] gmail [dot] com
calebmilne.me

I’ve done copy-editing for a few art books. I’m an editor at a medical communications company full time, but I also worked in a few college and graduate literary journals as well as consistently help friends via descriptive editorial feedback with their poems, short stories, essays, etc. I also helped Kaveh Akbar with the Spiritual Poetry anthology.

Lara Mimosa Montes
laramimosamontes [at] gmail [dot] com
laramimosa.info

I'm a freelance editor who works with writers and artists developing hybrid manuscripts, poetry collections, and publishing projects that blend elements of poetry, prose, art writing, and personal essay. I’m experienced in developmental, line editing, drafting copy and event programming. I also work with independent and nonprofit arts and literary organizations on a project basis.

Amanda Oliver
aeoliver111 [at] gmail [dot] com
amandaoliver.com

I've been working as a freelance editor for the last few years and have a particular fondness, and strength, for working with folks on essays and essay collections.

Larissa Melo Pienkowski
larissa [at] impeditorial [dot] com
lmpeditorial.com

I work as an editor, copy-editor and sensitivity reader. After earning my BSW in Social Work and Sociology from Simmons College and MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College, I began her career in publishing by working with the likes of Beacon Press and Barefoot Books before becoming the assistant publisher of Dottir Press, a literary agent at Jill Grinberg Literary Management, and starting my own freelance editing company, LMP Editorial. 

As a professional book editor, I've worked directly with self-published authors and authors published by St. Martin’s Press; Little, Brown; Tor Books; Tor Teen; Soho Press; Sourcebooks; Hub City Press; And Other Stories; Barefoot Books; and others on books across all genres. I do have a special love for literary fiction, women's fiction/coming-of-age fiction, romance, light fantasy and magical realism, LGBTQIA+ stories, and adventurous middle-grade and YA fiction.

As a queer, mixed-race Latine editor, I am especially committed to uplifting and preserving BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent, and other historically excluded voices and experiences in publishing. I'm the daughter of immigrants, I speak Portuguese and Spanish, and I live in Philadelphia with my fiancée and very fluffy husky, Olaf.

Devin Kate Pope
devinkpope [at] gmail [dot] com
devinkatepope.com/studio

Since 2017, I’ve worked with dreamers and doers who wanted a partner to get the words right. Many of my clients call me a ‘thought translator.’ I work with writers and business owners when they need to write about themselves -- whether the format is a website, bio, fellowship application, or more. I also take on developmental editing work when a project needs fresh eyes to see the big picture and help clarify and expand your wild ideas.

Coty Poynter
cotympoynter [at] gmail [dot] com 
cotypoynter.com

I'm a writer and editor from Baltimore, Maryland, with both poetry and fiction in various online magazines, such as Black Fox Literary Magazine, Equinox, Grub Street, and various other outlets. I was the creative nonfiction editor at Mud Season Review and a contributing writer at Write or Die Magazine, where I wrote essays about the craft of writing and poetry and did the occasional interview. Additionally, I was the publicity intern at Driftwood Press, where I worked on programs such as AirTable to help manage programs, and solicit upcoming and recent publications. Currently, I'm the managing editor at NPQ and a graduate student at Towson University in the Professional Writing program, concentrating on creative writing.

Rebecca Raskin
rebecca.raskin [at] gmail [dot] com

As an editor, I started my career at Kensington Books where I worked primarily on women's fiction as an assistant and then I moved to HarperCollins where I acquired and edited nonfiction (popular science, leftist politics, economics, cookbooks). I am now primarily freelancing. I love helping authors hone their voice. The best way to reach me is through email.

Noah Rawlings 
rawlingsnoah [at] gmail [dot] com 

I have experience working on creative non-fiction, journalism, and academic monographs. I also have editing experience with shorter forms, like magazine writing (Los Angeles Review of Books), newspapers, and even biomedical research (Emory University). I am open to many forms of editing, from substantive changes to copy-editing, as well as diverse genres.


Nancy Rawlinson
nancyrawlinson [at] gmail [dot] com
nancyrawlinson.com

I’m a developmental editor for literary fiction and nonfiction. I also coach writers and teach nonfiction writing workshops.

Kirsten Reach
kirsten [at] jonquileditorial [dot] com
jonquileditorial.com

My recent authors include Ilya Kaminsky, Ellen O'Connell Whittet, Rita Zoey Chin, Erin Zimmerman, Jacqueline Alnes, Geeta Kothari, and more. I'm always glad to work with debut authors, and authors who are established in one genre but want to experiment with another (hi, poets looking to publish prose!). I’ve worked in houses big and small: as a book editor at Melville House, Grand Central Publishing, and Henry Holt & Company, and as Fiction Editor for the Kenyon Review. I'm a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course.


Sarah Lyn Rogers
mail [at] sarahlynrogers [dot] com 
sarahlynrogers.com/editing

Through my small business, I work with private clients on manuscript consultations. I'm also interested in freelance work for publishers; I'm available for reader reports, edit letters, and full manuscript edits. I worked at Soft Skull Press from 2019 - 2022 (where I acquired and edited six books, serving as in-house editorial support for five more) and co-edited three anthologies for Catapult Books in a collaboration with PEN America. Leading up to and overlapping with this, I have a decade of experience editing short fiction and essays for literary magazines, including The Rumpus and Catapult magazine. Books I've worked on span literary fiction (short stories and novels), creative nonfiction (memoir and essay collections), and poetry. 

Jenna Routenberg
jenna [at] routenbergrewrites [dot] com
routenbergrewrites.com

I have been working extensively in business and academic writing, but I'm looking to transition to editing fiction and nonfiction prose with a more literary and journalistic nature.
I have a BA in English from Reed College and an MA in the Humanities from the University of Chicago and my career history includes marketing for software and process industries as well as editing for tech journalism publications such as Built In and TechCrunch.

Daisuke Shen
dicekay [at] protonmail [dot] com
daisukeshen.com/editing

My name is Daisuke Shen, and I am a fiction writer, editor, and creative writing instructor. I am the co-author of the collaborative novella Funeral with Vi Khi Nao (KERNPUNKT Press 2023). As an editor, I specialize in works geared toward the speculative and/or experimental. Whether you have a novel, short story collection, or flash piece, I will provide extensive feedback on your manuscript regarding elements such as characterization, language, plot, and more. 

Clients and students have published work in journals including Cleaver Magazine, Lumiere Review, Weird Tales with Jeff VanderMeer, Fantasy Magazine, and The Ekphrastic Review, as well as books with presses such as Guernica Editions and Corvus, among others.

If you are interested in working with me, you can contact me with a sample of your manuscript, as well as a paragraph detailing your goals in the editorial process.


Danniel Schoonebeek
danniel.schoonebeek [at] gmail [dot] com
dannielschoonebeek.com

I do editorial work on poetry and prose manuscripts with individual writers, as well as copywriting, publicity, and consultation work for Higher Education publishers.

Nicole Stanton
nicole.stanton562 [at] gmail [dot] com
nestanton.com

I’m an editor/teacher/writer making home in LA and Vermont. I also pose as an amateur astrologer and hold deep affection for the cross-country road trip. No matter the project, I thrive working with clients interested in the mess of creative collaboration. I love the mess! Most of my work has been on long-form memoir and fiction projects and feel open and excited to work with writers of all levels.

Liza St. James
lizastjames [at] gmail [dot] com
lizastjames.com

I am a freelance editor with experience working with international book publishers, magazines, and literary journals. I work with artists, writers, and translators on everything from developmental editing to line editing to consulting. I have a special interest in hybrid manuscripts, collections of short prose, multilingual texts, and conceptual literary projects.

Kerri Sullivan
newjerseybookproject [at] gmail [dot] com
kerrisullivan.com

I'm a writer, public librarian, and editor of New Jersey Fan Club, an anthology published in 2022 by Rutgers University Press. For my book, I worked with over 60 contributors (writers, illustrators, photographers) on pieces that ranged from personal essays, narrative history writing, mini travel guides, comics, and even a crossword puzzle. I would be happy to help other writers/editors who are working on an anthology or other kinds of collaborative projects. I also have experience with book proposals, developmental editing, promoting a book, and working with libraries as an author.

Alexandra Tanner
alexandrabrooketanner [at] gmail [dot] com
alexandratanner.com

Amy Tipton
feralgirlbooks [at] gmail [dot] com
amy-tipton.com

Amy graduated from Naropa University with a B.A. in Writing and Literature and received her MFA from New College of California in Writing. She worked as a literary agent for years before going freelance in 2018. Prior to beginning Feral Girl Books, Amy was a literary agent at Signature Literary Agency. Amy has previously worked at JCA Literary Agency, Diana Finch Literary Agency, Gina Maccoby Literary Agency, and Liza Dawson Associates, as a book scout for Aram Fox, Inc., and as a freelance editor for Lauren Weisberger (author of The Devil Wears Prada). As a literary agent she represented authors such as Edgar-Award winner Courtney Summers, Stonewall Prize winner Kirstin Cronn-Mills, as well as prolific authors Amy Reed, K. Ancrum, and many others.

John Tjhia
jon [at] paperradio [dot] net
informationjewellery.com

I’m interested in conceptual development and multimedia editing. I'm experienced in structural editing of essays and short stories as well as commissioning collections and chapbook anthologies, mostly in digital forms.  I'm currently a guest co-editor of print journal Debris. I have favoured working with racialised, minoritised, disabled and chronically ill writers and artists. My approach to editing is open, relational and awake to the writer's style, needs and personality, and I love experimental writing and publishing!

Lauren Westerfield
lauren.westerfield [at] gmail [dot] com
lauren.westerfield.com

I am an experienced editor of personal essays and book-length creative nonfiction/hybrid collections (essay, memoir, cross-genre). Currently, I am the nonfiction/hybrid editor at Split/Lip Press. I am interested in working with clients seeking developmental and/or line edits on stand-alone essay projects, chapbooks, and full-length manuscripts.

Meg Whiteford
mmmwhiteford [at] gmail [dot] com

I specialize in developmental, line, and copyediting for books with a focus on art, performance, and film.