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freelance proofreading & copyediting

Politics, Theory, History

Verso Books
(US/UK style)
  • Feminist International: How to Change Everything by Verónica Gago
  • First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy 
    by David Broder
  • The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond by John Washington
  • First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers by Richard Lachmann
  • Females by Andrea Long Chu
  • We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us 
    by Hadas Weiss
  • Civilization: How We All Became American by Régis Debray
  • China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality 
    by Wang Hui
  • The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan by Samo Tomsic
  • A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America 
    by Óscar Martínez
  • The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us 
    by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
  • Class War: The Privatization of Childhood by Megan Erickson
  • Last Futures: Nature, Technology, and the End of Architecture 
    by Douglas Murphy
  • The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot
  • The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five 
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    by Fernando Morais
  • The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies
  • The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms
    by Fredric Jameson
  • Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation
    edited by Vijay Prashad
  • The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
    by Patrick Cockburn
  • Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide by Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
  • The Future by Marc Augé 
  • Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All 
    by David R. Roediger
  • Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman
  • The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal's Maoist Revolution
    by Aditya Adikhari
The New Press
  • Killing the Story: Journalists Risking Their Lives to Uncover the Truth in Mexico by Témoris Grecko

Food & Wine, Health

The Experiment
(includes cookbook Americanization)
  • Love Your Gut: An Easy-to-Digest Guide to Health and Happiness from the Inside Out by Megan Rossi 
  • Vegan Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Reduce Inflammation, and Live Longer--the 16:8 Way by Petra Bracht and Mira Flatt
  • Welcome to Wine: An Illustrated Guide to All You Really Need to Know
    by Madelyne Meyer
  • Fodmap Friendly: 95 Vegetarian and Gluten-Free Recipes for the Digestively Challenged by Georgia McDermott
  • The World Eats Here: Amazing Food and the Inspiring People Who Make It at New York's Queens Night Market by John Wang and Storm Garner
  • Vegan Everything by Nadine Horn and Jörg Mayer
  • Sushi Modoki: The Japanese Art and Craft of Vegan Sushi by iina
  • No Gluten, No Problem Pizza by Kelli and Peter Bronski
  • Baby-Led Weaning: The Essential Guide, Expanded Edition 
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    by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett
  • An Appetite for Life: Stress-Free Strategies for Feeding Your Child from the Start by Clare Llewellyn and Hayley Syrad
  • East Meets Vegan: The Best of Asian Home Cooking, Plant-Based and Delicious by Sasha Gill
  • The Plantiful Table: Easy, From-the-Earth Recipes for the Whole Family 
    by Andrea Duclos
  • Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater: A Stage-by-Stage Guide to Setting Your Child on the Path to Adventurous Eating 
    by Melanie Potock and Nimali Fernando
  • The Taco Cleanse: The Tortilla-Based Diet Proven to Change Your Life by Wes Allison, Stephanie Bogdanich, Molly R. Frisinger, and Jessica Morris
  • Tres Green, Tres Clean, Tres Chic: Eat (and Live!) the New French Way with Plant-Based, Gluten-Free Recipes for Every Season by Rebecca Leffler
  • The Ultimate Guide to Sugars and Sweeteners: Discover the Taste, Use, Nutrition, Science, and Lore of Everything from Agave Nectar to Xylitol
    by Alan Barclay, Claudia Shwide-Slavin, and Philippa Sandall
  • Eat Right for Your Sight: Simple Tasty Recipes That Help Reduce the Risk of Vision Loss from Macular Degeneration
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    by the American Macular Degeneration Foundation, Jennifer Trainer Thompson, and Johanna M. Seddon
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Popular Science, Memoir, Self-Help

The Experiment
  • The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a Disappearing World 
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    by Marco Tedesco
  • The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table 
    by Anja Røyne
  • Who You Were Before Trauma: The Healing Power of Imagination for Trauma Survivors by Luise Reddemann
  • Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds by Ian Wright
  • A Field Guide to Clean Drinking Water: How to Find, Assess, Treat, and
    Store It 
    by Joe Vogel
  • In Tune: Music as the Bridge to Mindfulness by Richard Wolf
  • We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know by Stefan Klein
  • Stop the Fight! An Illustrated Guide for Couples by Michelle Brody
  • The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Using Nature to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals – And Other Forgotten Skills by Tristan Gooley
  • My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair

BOOKS
Editing

selected managing editorial projects
Clean Enough: Get Back to Basics and Leave Room for Dessert 
by Katzie Guy-Hamilton
Adventures with Zap: 107 Creative Prompts for Beginning Writers 
by Allison Hershey and Diane Landy
The No Meat Athlete Cookbook: Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipes to Fuel Your Workouts–and the Rest of Your Life 
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by Matt Frazier and Stepfanie Romine
YumUniverse Pantry to Plate: Improvise Meals You Love–from What You Have! 
by Heather Crosby
Boost Your Breast Milk: An All-in-One Guide for Nursing Mothers to Build a Healthy Milk Supply 
by Alicia Simpson
Good Veg: Ebullient Vegetables, Global Flavors 
by Alice Hart
Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year 
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by Ian Brown

developmental editing

Seafurrers: The Ships' Cats Who Lapped and Mapped the World
​by Philippa Sandall and Ad Long

NEWS

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and The Paper : Online news website and free weekly in Cold Spring, NY (Copy editor, 2012–'13, '14–'15)

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The China Post, The Student Post, The Junior Student Post: 
English-language daily newspaper in Taipei, Taiwan (Copy editor and English editor, 2001–2002)


OTHER

  • Noble Desktop: Training center for web design and development in New York, NY (Freelance proofreader and workbook tester, 2014)
  • Asian American Writers Workshop: Nonprofit arts organization with four online magazines in New York, NY (Editorial intern, 2013)
  • Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: Academic journal based at the Ohio State University (Editorial assistant, 2003–2005)


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