Apogee Dissertation Editing, LLC

I have worked as a freelance academic editor for almost a decade and as a dissertation coach at an R2 university for the last four years. This work has fueled my passion for helping scholars deepen their analyses, craft compelling narratives, enhance the credibility of their research, and strengthen their academic writing.

 

Writing has been at the core of who I am since I was a child, and nearly every step in my professional life has led me to professional editing as a natural fit. My undergraduate education focused on medicine and environmental public health, but instead of medical school, I pivoted to writing and earned my Master of Fine Arts in Writing Creative Nonfiction. I have published my creative work widely. My scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of Creative Nursing. I taught writing and medical humanities at a nursing and health sciences college for 15 years, and I am very comfortable working in the intersection between the arts and sciences.  

 

As an editor,  I am obsessively detail-oriented and reasonably perfectionist. I love the puzzle of streamlining writing to be as professional, clear, and powerful as possible, but I also love the relationships I build as a coach. When a client tells me they are thinking of giving up at the start of a call and have a step-by-step plan for writing and revision at the end, I am thrilled. I have coached over a hundred scholars at various stages of the dissertation writing process, many of whom had previously given up hope that they’d ever achieve “done dissertation.” Many former coaching clients return for help adapting their dissertations to publishable articles. 

 

When not working, I enjoy tending to an ever-expanding vegetable garden and riding my adaptive arm cycle on the rail trails near my home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

 

I look forward to partnering with you as a writing coach and/or editor on your next project.