Having started&nbsp;writing at age 12, I've now been a writer and editor for decades. In editing, I work to assist writers to find their own voices and to meet the highest literary standards, whether writing research proposals, academic papers, fiction, nonfiction, books, articles, or blogs. I particularly enjoy working with ESL writers in the social, biological and medical sciences. I have worked as a copy editor for a group of prestigious aerospace journals, for a publisher of pot-boiling romance periodicals, and as a free-lance proofreader. I'm a published writer of short fiction (crime and fantasy) as well as academic and professional articles and book chapters in the fields of anthropology and the history of technology. For several years I wrote an award-winning column about issues in healthcare documentation. It's always a&nbsp;privilege to work on the interesting manuscripts submitted by EditorWorld's authors.