I’m Dana, a licensed educator and former scientist who switched professional gears about fifteen years ago.
Actually, it’s more like I added gears. Editing gears.
I did it for love. I’m enthralled with letters and symbols and numbers and the impressive job they do working together to convey meaning—information, ideas, images, moods—all that, and then some. It’s truly incredible. And getting to be a part of projects that involve words and that can better the world? Even more incredible.
Sometimes my work involves education or science, or both. Sometimes it involves neither. I specialize in nonfiction, primarily editing educational materials, scholarly works, and reports—but I welcome literary excursions into creative nonfiction as well.
Outside of work, I enjoy cryptic crosswords and logic puzzles, embroidery and sewing, pitchers and teapots, bass guitar, good dirt, all things midcentury modern, and my family, including our two ferocious beasts, Violet and Buttercup.
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