"Often, people have something they need to say and are unsure how to say it most effectively. I am passionate about helping others to express their ideas as clearly and eloquently as possible.

I specialize in editing academic papers, college admission essays, cover letters, business emails, and creative writing. My education in literature has given me a firm, intuitive grasp of the language. During my MA, I received a grade of A+ for 5 out of 8 seminar papers, and one of those was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal.

I can help you at any stage of the writing process: brainstorming ideas, organizing your thoughts into an outline, making sure the content makes sense and addresses the prompt, beginning to write the first draft, editing for clarity, word choice, and flow, or detailed proofreading to fix grammar, spelling, punctuation, formatting, etc. I am able to either go through the editing process with you in an online lesson or work independently on a document that you send me.

I have worked with high school, university, Master's, and PhD students, and edited academic papers on literature, economics, religious studies, international relations, higher education administration, social work policy, racial inequality, and more. In terms of college admission essays, I have worked with students applying to universities such as Stanford and MIT to study computer science, philosophy, and business. I am currently working with an international student on MBA applications for Harvard, Duke, and Yale. As a literature graduate, avid reader, and aspiring travel writer/poet, I can also edit and give feedback on creative work.

My wide-ranging travel experience on 6 continents and 7 years of working as an ESL conversation tutor has made me comfortable relating to students from any background and quick to understand the intended meaning of ESL speakers.

There is nothing more satisfying to me than when a student reacts to my edits with "THAT is what I really wanted to say." less...