I help scientists and students get their ideas out of their heads and onto the page.

My love of scientific narrative first emerged when I was a young child tagging along in my parents’ virology lab. Over the years, I watched and wondered, vortexed and pipetted, and listened to heroic stories of white blood cells attacking invading germs—formative memories that led me to an undergraduate degree in microbiology and to research projects in bacteriology, reproductive endocrinology, virology, and cell biology. But ultimately, my love for the language of science won out, and I earned my PhD in English, studying the intersections between microbiome research and science fiction.

Along the way, I discovered a passion for helping students coax their ideas into words … and have now taught writing-intensive college courses for over a decade. I currently teach in the Science & Technology Studies department at UC Davis, where I help students understand the connections between science and culture, the ins and outs of science publishing, and how science itself has developed over time. I’m also currently at work on my own related research, which focuses on how science fiction surfaces in human microbiome research.

My editing work unites all of these experiences. My clients benefit from my technical background, training in language and literature, and personal experience as an academic writer. And the benefits go both ways: I see my clients as my best and most rewarding students.

I help writers with academic documents of all types, through both document editing and 1:1 coaching. My specialty is working with writers in the life sciences and medicine, as well as the humanities. I especially love working with student writers, nonnative English speakers, and first-time authors.

When not wrangling words and students, I can usually be found cooking, reading (especially science fiction and memoirs), chasing my two small humans, advocating for my kid with a disability, attempting and often failing to grow vegetables, listening to folk and bluegrass music, and going places by bike.

You can learn more about me and my editing, teaching, and writing work here.