During my first year at university, my favorite professor nominated me to be an editor at the student writing center. I was honored because I was a geology major, after all.  Helping other students write better became the highlight of my week. My editing experiences spanned student essays by English language learners ​to doctorate dissertations by PhD candidates in the fisheries and wildlife and department. The power of words changed my life. I swapped geology for English and dove into the arts of writing, rhetoric, and literature. 

Despite earning three degrees, I could tell I wasn’t finished learning. I wanted to find a way to combine my love of words with my passion for the details of meaning, so I returned to university as a graduate student in linguistics. Around this time, thanks to the internet, I discovered my long-lost best friend from fifth grade, who happened to be teaching in Japan. 

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After graduating, I found myself on a plane headed to Osaka. As a university instructor, I enjoyed teaching writing classes the most: my students may have been shy to speak, but they had strong, unique voices on paper. In my free time, I volunteered to edit articles for the Japan Association for Language Teaching.
 

Four years down the road, I needed a change, so I moved to Istanbul, Turkey, and I began teaching high school students. The change from university teaching to high school required a steep learning curve. Three years later when I moved to Dubai, UAE, I knew the time had come to return to editing. Since 2016 I’ve been working as a freelance editor, helping independent authors, small businesses, and writing enthusiasts shape their words into clear, coherent, and concise stories.

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​These days I spend my time moving between worlds. Some weeks I’m on fantastic adventures in space or get transported to destinations where dragons are the true threat. Other weeks find me jet-setting around the world in cosmopolitan stories set in the biggest cities on earth. I love when I get tossed back in history and see famous events unfold from a fresh perspective. Sometimes I experience our world facing a future that unfolded vastly different from our current trajectory. From time to time, I get the chance to delve into the real world when I’m editing articles about history or the finer points of the English language. 
 
In August of 2019, I relocated to London, and I’m so glad you’ve found me doing what I love in a city I always dreamed of living in. ​I know how lucky I am! ​