I've worked as an editor, copyeditor, and proofreader since the late 1980s, when I was hired as an editorial assistant for the Journal of Fusion Energy at MIT's Plasma Fusion Center.  From there I moved to Houghton Mifflin, where I read submissions, wrote manuscript reports, and corresponded with authors and agents.  After leaving to work on my own writing, I continued to freelance as an editor—copyediting new product descriptions for Test & Measurement World, writing and editing sales presentations for Polaroid, and working with several non-native-English-speaking scientists on articles for publication. 

After finishing a graduate degree in Comparative Literature and German in 1996, I spent five years in New York City, doing legal and business proofing for several firms, including O'Sullivan Graev & Karabell and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.  This led into half a year as the managing editor of the New York Resident, Manhattan's largest neighborhood newspaper, where I oversaw the publication of articles in all sections of the paper.  From 1998 to 2000 I was Special Projects Editor at the academic journal LinguaFranca, producing the second edition of their Real Guide to Grad School.  During this period I also began proofreading and copyediting manuscripts for Ballantine Books and Viking Penguin. 

Most recently, in addition to editing for Ballantine and Viking, I have also helped prepare a number of academic manuscripts for publication, many with non-native speakers from my university-level ESL classes.  Some of the projects I have worked on are listed below:

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
—Kirschke, Amy. "Romare Bearden's Early Collages." Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art catalogue, 2004.
—Maruta, K., M. Sugawara, Y. Shimada, and M. Yamaguchi. "Analysis of Optimum Sheet Resistance for Integrated Electromagnetic Noise Suppressors." IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 42 (October 2006), 3377-3379.
—Miller, Tracy. The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
—Zhang, Fan. "Reading Murals in the Eastern Mausoleum: The Qidan Construction of Ethnic Identity." Master's thesis, Vanderbilt University, 2004.

TRADE PUBLICATIONS
—Alterman, Seymour L., M.D. How to Prevent, Control & Cure Diabetes: Minimize the Impact Diabetes Has on Your Life. New York: Ballantine, 2006.
Gerber, Robin. Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2004.
—King, Stephen. Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower IV. New York: Viking Penguin, 2004.
—Drosnin, Michael. The Bible Code II. New York: Viking, 2002.
—Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal Guide to Who's Who and What's What on Wall Street. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.