TESTIMONIALS.
EDITORIAL STATEMENT.
Poetry represents an opportunity to constantly reinvent; to find new words, arrangements, landscapes, and forms with which to express the age-old. I am drawn in by poems that take and then refill my body’s breath. With softness or boldness, a poem must say something beyond beauty and lyric. It must enact. It must make a declaration. It must lead to revolution. It must shock the reader with its aliveness of witness. When is a poem done, then? We’re rarely blessed with the final poem in our first draft. Our early versions are often akin to channeling, to birthing. Revision, then, is the tender care we take to shape and raise the best of our language to fullness. As an editor and consultant, it is my task to understand why you must write, to understand how important your work is to you, to identify your unique writing cadence. I will treat it with care and grace.
I am looking for where you are strongest as a writer and/or poet and will work with you to ensure that strength is felt through & through. After our time together discussing your work, you will leave with a better understanding of your own personal toolkit and vocal cadence as a writer. I formerly served as Editor-in-Chief for the award-winning LGBTQ magazine Foglifter Press, am the creator of the Black queer poetry workshop Litany!, and I have served on Individual Artist Grant committees in both San Francisco and Berkeley. I have supported youth in completing manuscripts in partnership with Chapter 510, and have served as an editorial consultant for Black Lawrence Press for several years. My knowledge from each of these artistic experiences, as well as from my own writing, is ready to be put to good use. Sound good? Contact me!
SERVICES & FEES.
-Poetry folios of up to 5 pages (minimum rate: $50)
-Individual essays (minimum rate: $50)
-Chapbook projects up to 32 pages (minimum rate: $150)
-Full-length poetry manuscripts over 48 pages (minimum rate: $300)
-Full-length prose, fiction, & hybrid manuscripts (minimum rate: $500)
Editorial services at each level include copyediting for spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.; content editing toward clear, concise, and unique writing; and thematic questions, ordering suggestions, formal/craft suggestions, and in-depth discussion of the manuscript. Each of the chapbook and full-length options come with a minimum of one hour-long consultations with me to discuss the work in depth. Additional meetings and rounds of editing are packaged at $150 each.
-Individual essays (minimum rate: $50)
-Chapbook projects up to 32 pages (minimum rate: $150)
-Full-length poetry manuscripts over 48 pages (minimum rate: $300)
-Full-length prose, fiction, & hybrid manuscripts (minimum rate: $500)
Editorial services at each level include copyediting for spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.; content editing toward clear, concise, and unique writing; and thematic questions, ordering suggestions, formal/craft suggestions, and in-depth discussion of the manuscript. Each of the chapbook and full-length options come with a minimum of one hour-long consultations with me to discuss the work in depth. Additional meetings and rounds of editing are packaged at $150 each.