<img src="file:///C:/Users/qpat/Desktop/My%20professional%20editing%20experience%20entails%20trade.pdf" alt="Self Description" />My professional editing experience entails trade, academic, and freelance publishing. I have 25 years of professional teaching experience at the levels of secondary education (Woodside High School, Woodside, CA), higher education (College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle; Pace University, New York; University of Washington, Seattle), and continuing education (Fordham University, New York; 92nd Street Y, New York). My years as instructor of &nbsp;literature, writing, and language arts contribute to my editing expertise. I have a PhD in English and MFA in Fiction, both from the University of Washington.<br /><br />My editing projects are enhanced by a teacher's sensibility, which I define as scrupulous attention to structure and mechanics, coupled with sensitivity to the particular&nbsp;goal and appropriate register of each text. I respect each writer's desire for error-free prose that is&nbsp;also distinctive.<br /><br />
<div>My editing experience is as follows: I solicited, revised, and proofread scholarly and literary essays for two anthologies, Dylan at Play (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011), and Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan in the 21st Century (University of Mississippi Press, forthcoming).&nbsp;<br /><br />I solicited, revised, proofread, and copyedited scholarly and creative writing for the print journal, Montague Street: The Art of Bob Dylan (2009-2011), for which I was publisher and editor.<br /><br />As freelance editor, I have specialized in revision and proofreading for ESL graduate students and faculty in the area of finance. In this capacity, I have worked with dissertation material and journal articles. Titles and authors are available upon request.<br /><br />From 1998-1999, I was Editorial Coordinator for Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge. In this position, I assisted with revision of contracted manuscripts.<br /><br />From 1983-1987, I worked as Editorial Assistant and Assistant Editor for Warner Books, Pinnacle Books, and Avon Books, trade publishers in New York. I solicited, revised, proofread, and copyedited manuscripts and marketing material for publication.</div>