About

This Spring 2025, I will defend my final portfolio for a master’s of arts in professional and technical writing, with a focus on publishing and editing.

During my academic career, I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to develop my editing skills in a myriad of roles. As an English undergraduate at Northeastern University (NU), I served as an editor for the student-run nonfiction magazine NU Science; I also served as a teacher’s aide for NU rhetoric professor Beth Britt. During my graduate studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock), I served first as a WordPress admin and clerk for UA Little Rock’s Faculty Senate; in my second and third years, I worked as the main editor and proofreader and the head of outreach at the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS). I briefly interned with Dr. Heather Hummel, an English professor at UA Little Rock, during Summer 2024 and helped her proofread the second edition of her book Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology. In 2023–2024, I was part of UA Little Rock’s nonfiction journal Quills & Pixels editorial team and was part of both the acceptance team and the copyediting team.

I have always been an avid and close reader. I decided to pursue English during undergrad after discovering I loved all things written.

An Arkansas native, I grew up in rural northwestern Arkansas on a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center, Katog Choling, for whom I have provided both editorial and design work. I also attended the Arkansas School of Mathematics, Sciences, and Arts (ASMSA) in Hot Springs. I currently live in Conway.

Project Experience Tailored to Applying Language Theory to Editing Practices

Through my various projects, I’ve developed a keen sense of applicable language theory and methods that are relevant for different various levels of editing. These include among other things editing practices such as navigating different style guides, discovering common errors (like garden-path sentences) that are commonly introduced into writing by AI software such as Grammarly, and rewriting confusing language into plain English by closely studying sentence structure.

Searching for Further Professional Experience in Teaching, Editing, and Writing

Throughout my graduate and undergraduate studies, I have worked as a research assistant, graduate assistant, outreach/marketing officer, copyeditor, and proofreader.

After graduation, I will be broadly seeking work in teaching English and rhetoric, in both developmental editing and copyediting, and in marketing and outreach.