Forthcoming Edited Works
- The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More by Jefferson Fisher, published by PRH (proofreading)
- We Paved the Way: Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers’ Campaign by O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, published by University Press of Mississippi (copy editing)
- Amy Mallard and Racial Justice: Lynching, Law, and Resistance in Post–World War II America by Matthew Lippman, published by University Press of Florida (copy editing)
- Orphaned Heritage by Ben Swenson (developmental and copy editing)
- Ever This Night by Molly J. Sions (proofreading)
- The Blue Dog and the White Horse: Tales of Friendship (developmental and copy editing)
- Murder on the Appalachian Trail by Duncan L. Clarke (developmental and copy editing)
- I Taught Benjamin Franklin How to Drive by Ann K. Morris (developmental and copy editing)
Edited Books
The War of Independence Way by Brian Pinaire
The War of Independence Way opens with the Reds (the British redcoats), bullies from Crown Township, blasting Massachusetts Avenue boys with paintballs (the Boston Massacre) on the orders of their leader, Georgie King (King George III), the richest kid around and the worst eighth grader in history. Members of Down with Crown, a “secret society,” get revenge by dumping lemonade over Georgie’s head rather than pay “taxes” on their profits. Which works out well . . . except that it starts a war that Independence Way seems to have no chance of winning.
Services: Developmental and copy editing
The 3rd Option, second edition by Ben A. Sharpton
Allan Chappel enrolled in seminary to change the world, but people lied and people died, and he turned in his clerical collar for an office cubicle. Years later, an old college friend invites him to apply for a job with a new medical think tank called Inc.Ubator, the office is destroyed in a fiery blast, and Allan finds himself the target of an international manhunt as an Eric Rudolf-style domestic terrorist and abortion clinic bomber. But his quest for answers only leads to more questions. What were the researchers at Inc.Ubator hiding? Who was willing to spill blood to keep their work a secret?
Services: Proofreading
Living Tidal by Sheena Jeffers
On a frigid November night at high tide, a young woman unties the dock lines and watches the land recede as the sailboat she’s standing on floats out to sea. She has a jacket, a scarf, and a deep need to reinvent herself. Living Tidal is part adventure, part love story: a coming-of-age memoir that captures the hearts and minds of readers with each page. Journalist Sheena Jeffers addresses the curiosity, self-doubt, and the desire we all have to deeply experience the world as we embark on the lifelong journey to know ourselves.
Services: Proofreading
Talking to Sissy by Sharon Pago
Every day, three-year-old Oakley talks to the baby girl in his mommy’s stomach. Before Sissy is even born, Oakley is a loving big brother. But, when Sissy passes, Oakley learns to keep sharing his love with a baby sister who never comes home with him.
Services: Developmental and copy editing, illustration coordination
Marco Pollo, World-Traveling Chicken by Kathryn Dickerson
In a world completely fenced in, one young chicken dares to break away from tradition and out of the farmyard to explore the world he knows is just on the other side. But he discovers quickly that he’s not ready for the big, bustling world outside the safe nest he’s known his whole life. Luckily, his uncle is there to save him and prepare him to fulfill his destiny of becoming Marco Pollo, World-Traveling Chicken!
Services: Developmental and copy editing, illustration coordination
Publications
Essays
“A fever of repetition”: Routine, Identity, and Neoliberalism in Ling Ma’s Severance.” Synapsis, 20 January 2021.
“We All Have Headaches, Sweetie.” The Health Humanities Journal of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, November 2020. Included in How Writing Works: A Guide to Composing Genres by Jordynn Jack and Katie Rose Guest Pryal.
“Is This a Turning Point?” The Daily Mississippian, 11 April 2019.
Research Articles
“‘Ain’t no more stories for you here’: Vengeful Hauntings and Traumatized Community in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing.” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures, September 2021.
“‘A great disturbance in my inner man’: The Impossibility of National Unity in Robert Montgomery
Bird’s Sheppard Lee.” The Macksey Journal, 2020, Vol. 1, Article 101.
Book Reviews
Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral, Carolina Quarterly, 2021.
The Altruists by Andrew Ridker, The Daily Mississippian, March 2019.
Florida by Lauren Groff, The Daily Mississippian, 22 June 2018.
The Fighter by Michael Farris Smith, The Daily Mississippian, March 2018.
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