Editing Work
I got up in the middle of the night and wrote this in a torrent of anger. Like, it was on some ‘post this to Livejournal’ shit and you turned it into something!
—a writer compliment I will always cherish
You have a brilliant brain that works at both the big picture and the granular level.
—from a writer with a brilliant brain herself
I only want to work for you. I hate other editors.
—a touch misanthropic but very flattering nonetheless
I edited features for the dearly departed Splinter (2015-2018) and founded TPM’s short-lived magazine, The Slice (2014-2015). More recently, I’ve worked on editorial projects for places like Dame, Rebel Girls, The Meteor, and The Doe.
Send me a note if you want me to edit your manuscript, relaunch your site, give your startup editorial advice, fill in for an editor on parental leave, or troubleshoot your book proposal.
Here are a few projects and pieces I’m proud of:
The Think Local project: Splinter’s “virtual bureaus“
‘I Am a Girl Now,’ Sage Smith Wrote. Then She Went Missing.
by Emma Eisenberg, Splinter
winner of a 2018 NYABJ award; nominated for a GLAAD award, cited in Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror and Rachel Monroe’s Savage Appetites
How to Not Die in America
by Molly Osberg, Splinter
nominated for a Writer’s Guild Award 2018, anthologized in 2020's Best American Science and Nature Writing
It Was Never Going to Be a Normal Protest. They Came Ready to Fight.
(on-the-ground reporting in Charlottesville)
by Peter Moskowitz, Splinter
winner of a 2017 EPPY award
She Was a Conservative Texas Christian. Then Kai Was Born and Everything Changed.
by Kathryn Joyce, Splinter
winner of the Association of LGBTQ Journalists’ Feature Writing award, 2018
The Silent Crisis Killing Puerto Ricans Months After Hurricane Maria
by Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, Splinter
nominated for a Deadline Club award, 2018
Why Bisexual Men Are Still Fighting to Convince Us They Exist
by Samantha Allen, Splinter
winner of the GLAAD award for Outstanding Digital Journalism, 2018
Univision Is a Fucking Mess
by Laura Wagner, Kate Conger, and David Uberti, Gizmodo Media Special Projects
a meta investigation into our parent company’s finances
The Old Man Who Calls Border Patrol on Immigrants, and the Teen Girl Who Asked Him Why
by Kayla America Fuentes, Splinter
an unknown teen writer whose story went extremely viral (1 million pageviews)
Get Rich or Die Vlogging: The Sad Economics of Internet Fame
by Gaby Dunn, Splinter
viral hit that inspired the podcast and book Bad With Money
Alamo Drafthouse’s Long History of Minimizing Sexual Assault and Harassment
by Dan Solomon, Splinter
The Labor of Bringing a Baby Into Appalachia
by Alecia Swasy, Splinter
Neither of These Women Wanted to Be Pregnant. Only One Could Get an Abortion.
by Katie McDonough, Splinter
I Am the World’s First Abortion Refugee
by Jorge Rivas, Splinter
Welcome to Yellowbrick, a $27,500-a-month ‘Rehab’ for Stuck Millennials who Never Became Adults
by Molly Osberg, Splinter
How a Woman’s Rape at a Gay Nude Bar Sparked a Battle Over New Orleans’ Libertine Soul
by Kat Stoeffel, TPM
Inside the Duggars’ Deep Ties with a Once-Powerful, Now-Scorned Ministry
by Sarah Posner, TPM
Parenting While Black: Toya Graham on Violence, Fear and Freddie Gray
by Carla Murphy, TPM
How Walmart Became the Town Square in Rural America
by Rachel Monroe, TPM
The Diehard Rightwingers Who Just Can’t Quit Obamacare
by Gus Garcia-Roberts, TPM
Meet the Gay Mormon Men (and their Wives) Beseeching SCOTUS to Save ‘Traditional’ Marriage
by James Ross Gardner, TPM
The Financial Exiles
by Natalie Bailey, GOOD
The Hidden Economics of Oakland’s Rap Bohemia
by Channing Kennedy, GOOD
One Click at a Time
by Gaby Dunn, Tomorrow Magazine