I specialize biographies, history, literary journalism, sports, and scholarly writing and documentation (MLA, Chicago/Turabian, APA).

In more than 20 years of university teaching, I helped hundreds of beginning writers of newspaper and magazine articles and academic papers to develop ideas, write proposals and query letters, identify and locate sources, conduct research, draft and revise, employ the most effective techniques of presentation, and use appropriate style and documentation formats. I am available to help you in the same dedicated manner with your project, whether it be a book or an article for a magazine or scholarly journal. I can evaluate and critique your manuscript, help with writing of query letters and book proposals, and assist with content development, substantive editing, revising or rewriting, and fact-checking.

My background includes work as a general assignment reporter/education writer and as a copy editor for daily newspapers. My teaching in journalism and English departments has included such courses as Writing for the Mass Media, Writing Literary Journalism, Magazine and Feature Writing, Advanced Composition, and Expository Writing. I have written more than 20 biographical pieces for American National Biography, Dictionary of American Biography, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism and also have written articles, essays, and book reviews for anthologies and journals. I have evaluated papers, manuscripts, and textbook revisions for conferences, journals, and publishers (Wadsworth, Prentice-Hall). For several years, I served as a consultant judge for the Livestock Publications Council Award-Critique Program. I have bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism and have done doctoral work in American studies.

• Published Biographer
• Historian
• Journalist
• Writing Instructor
• Thesis and Dissertation Editor - MLA
• APA 5th Edition
• Chicago Manual of Style
• Turabian
• Documentation / Bibliography Formatting