&bull;Experienced College Professor of Creative Writing and Literature<br /><br />I am a former liberal arts college writing and literature professor, and an award-winning&nbsp;writer and freelance editor.&nbsp; I have worked&nbsp;with writers and students on&nbsp;refining essays, developing creative work, and revising academic articles over the past&nbsp;twenty years.&nbsp; I have a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and a B.A. from Colgate University, and a Paralegal Studies Certificate.&nbsp; My fiction collection won the Sharat Prize and was published by BKMK/University of Missouri Press; my&nbsp;writing, fiction and nonfiction, has&nbsp;been widely published in literary journals.&nbsp; I&nbsp;am a meticulous proofreader as well as an editor well-versed in devloping writing projects from conception to final draft.