About Catherine Adams
Catherine Adams
I have extensive editing and teaching experience spanning sixteen years.
Over my eight years as a developmental editor, I have worked on a wide range of fiction and nonfiction projects. I have written over 5000 pages of critical analysis for more than 250 clients. I have also content line edited well over 20,000 manuscript pages. My clients have found agents and publishers and have won book awards.
After graduating Valedictorian of Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN) 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 Twentieth-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.
I currently live in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
