Inkslinger Editing LLC

I have extensive editing and teaching experience spanning sixteen years. 

Since beginning work as a developmental editor in 2003, I have worked on a wide range of fiction and nonfiction projects. I have written well over 6000 pages of critical analysis for more than 300 clients.  I have also content line edited well over 30,000 manuscript pages.  My clients have found agents and publishers and have won book awards.

A little bit about me: After graduating Valedictorian of Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN) in 1994 with B.A. in Art History and Women’s Studies, I continued art historical studies at the University of Iowa.  I am A.B.D. in Art History with concentrations in 20th-Century Art, 18th-Century Art, and Rhetorical Studies.  Over the course of these studies, I received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships from federal, private, and university sources, including a University of Iowa Presidential Fellowship, a Bodine Fellowship, a T. Anne Cleary Fellowship, a FLAS (Hindi), and a Stanley Foundation Fellowship.  Before editing, I taught writing and speech at The University of Iowa for seven years.  I also taught 20th-Century Art History at The University of Iowa and at Iowa State University. 

I admit to great bouts of wanderlust.  Over the years, I have lived in a variety of places, including Paris, Berlin, Delhi, and San Francisco.  I have researched textiles, fashion, contemporary fine art, and literature in these places.

Some developmental editors are writers.  My creative passion, however, is photography.  My photographs have been published in Black and White Magazine and exhibited in solo, curated, and juried exhibitions.  Examples of my photographic work can be found at my website.

You can also read a dialogue between my partner, writer J. C. Hallman, and me on the connections and differences between photography and writing at InDigest Magazine.