 Copyediting, Line Editing, Structural Editing
 Editing of works by ESL writers
 Editing of translated works (German to English)
 Developmental Editing and Manuscript Critique
 Proofreading (also mark up of PDF page proofs)

 Food writing and cookbooks
 Social sciences and the humanities (academic and nonacademic)
 Creative nonfiction (politics, history, practical texts, essays, memoirs)
 Trade fiction

TRAINING
 Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), Word for Practical Editing, December 2022
 Louise Harnby, Switching to Fiction, April 2021
 Publishing Training Centre (PTC), Essential Grammar, November 2020
 Louise Harnby, How to Write the Perfect Fiction Editorial Report, May 2020
 Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), Editing with Word, April 2020
 Society for Editors and Proofreaders (now CIEP), Brush Up Your Grammar, March 2018
 Publishing Training Centre (PTC), Editing Fiction e-Learning Module, February 2018
 Publishing Training Centre (PTC), Certificate in Basic Editing (tutor-guided course), June 2017
 Publishing Training Centre (PTC) Certificate in Grammar at Work, February 2017

RELATED EXPERIENCE
 Manuscript preparation and editing of approx. 80 specialty medical texts following translation from German to English and copyediting, proofreading, project management, collation of hard copy proofs, and copywriting for Thieme Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany, 2006–March 2022
 Full-time regional sales and marketing manager, Thieme Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany, 1990–2001

FORMAL EDUCATION
 Master of Arts (1987) in US American Cultural Studies with further graduate work in Museum Studies, New York University, New York, New York, USA
 Bachelor of Arts (1978) in History, State University of New York, Cortland, New York, USA

 Participated in Master-level seminars in cultural studies, translation studies, and literature as non-matriculant at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany—semiannual semesters from 2010 to 2018—seminars were conducted in English
 One-to-one Italian language instruction, in Sciacca, Italy, 2004–2009

 Copyediting a collection of 40 original recipes by one author, scheduled completion autumn 2023
 Copyedited V. Fintelmann, Herbal Medicine, 3rd ed., February 2022
 Copyedited abstracts and full-length articles (average 14,000 words annually) for the online publication, Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society, annually, 2018–2021
 Substantially copyedited a 70,000-word YA magical realism novel Kama: Tell Me, What Does Your Heart Desire? April–July 2021 (British English)
 Manuscript critiques of three drafts of the abovenamed novel (each 70,000 words), 2018–2021
 Proof-edited using PDF tools: M. Hofer, CT Teaching Manual, 5th ed., January 2021
 Copyedited back cover text: M. Hofer, CT Teaching Manual, 5th ed., January 2021
 Proof-edited using PDF tools: M. Hofer, Ultrasound Teaching Manual, 4th ed., August 2020
 Copyedited back cover text: M. Hofer, Ultrasound Teaching Manual, 4th ed., August 2020
 Substantively copyedited and proofread (cookbook): Five Elements in the Kitchen: Recipes from My Friends in Chinese Medicine, Edited by Angelika-Marie Findgott, 2017–2019
 Copyedited a 1,300-word short story for A Public Place (literary magazine), May 2018
 Copyedited a 4,800-word press release for Daimler AG, September 2018
 Copyedited a 5,000-word article on the history of environmental science that was published in a University of Chicago Press compendium, September 2017

CIEP, ACES, MLA