Ashley Strosnider Email & Phone Number

Remote || Seattle, Washington, United States

• As Head of Editorial, my key function is ensuring the quality of our content teams’ core deliverables by defining and implementing a scalable and effective customer-focused editorial strategy. I strive to define and.
• Manage a team of four full-time in-house employees, as well as 200+ freelance writers and editors across the globe producing SEO content at scale for a variety of clients across industries
• Define editorial workflow for in-house quality assurance processes
• Collaborate cross-departmentally to define quantitative metrics for the quality and effectiveness of editorial in maintaining scalable quality
• Lead the AI-assisted content service team
• Led the staff augmentation writer placement service team

Remote || Seattle, Washington, United States

• Scheduled and oversaw editorial training and onboarding
• Defined and maintained clear and consistent brand voices across clients
• Provided direct feedback, coaching, and workshops to peers

Remote || Seattle, Washington, United States

• Managed freelance editor recruitment
• Edited content and performed quality checks on vendor deliverables
• Supported the sales team sourcing and producing custom samples

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Perform line edits, copy edits, and proofreads, as assigned, on frontlist fiction and nonfiction titles.
• Edit to improve clarity, flow, readability, and organizational structure.
• Ensure text is clean and error-free.
• Working according to house style and Chicago Manual.
• Create style sheets and editorial letters.

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

As a self-employed freelance editorial and marketing professional, I collaborate with small business owners, indie authors, and publishers on a variety of projects from book publishing to promo copy, product descriptions to website rebrands. I offer a unique range of experience, expertise in multiple editorial styles, broad marketing sense and keen.

Lincoln, Nebraska

• As Managing Editor of Prairie Schooner, a 90+ year-old literary journal:
• Managed production and staff of national quarterly print journal.
• Drove all marketing, advertising, and public relationships initiatives.
• Oversaw multiple budgets, revenue, and nonprofit development fundraising efforts.
• Directed two annual book prize contests and coordinated publication and promotion of winning manuscripts.As Managing Editor of the African Poetry Book Fund, a literary nonprofit dedicated to promoting the writing and.
• Wrote, coordinated, and secured grant funding.

Greater New York City Area

• Read assigned books and write reviews to word count and house specifications on deadline.
• Coordinated and conduct interviews with authors and write Q&A pieces.

Charleston, SC

• At Amazon's CreateSpace:
• Optimized user experience on customer-facing webpages.
• Served as department-wide editor and in-house copywriter.
• Collaborated with partner teams across the company.
• Analyzed data and engaged customers to optimize content for multiple audiences.
• Managed projects to evaluate, implement, and evangelize high quality standards and consistent voice.

Charleston, SC

• Fulfilled in-house editing and marketing services, including copy editing, line editing, writing back cover and promotional text, press releases, etc for VIP clients.
• Drove training and process improvements and innovations for content media team as well as editorial staff.
• Communicated regularly with high-profile and VIP authors as well as independent authors.
• Performed quality assurance on freelance vendor work.

Charleston, SC

• Managed workflow for all editorial and marketing services of team titles.
• Served as communication liaison between authors and third-party freelance vendors.
• Performed quality assurance on vendor work.
• Enforced Chicago Manual and AP styles.

Charleston, SC

• Proofread formatted book interiors for punctuation, grammar, and formatting, according to house style.
• Enforced design and editorial standards.
• Managed multiple projects on individualized timelines.

Columbia, SC

• Courses taught include: English 101, Literature and Composition; and English 102, Rhetoric and Composition; English 360, Introduction to Creative Writing.
• Responsibilities include: syllabus design, lesson planning, lecturing, individual conferences with students, and grading.
• Previous positions held within department as a Graduate Instructional Assistant have included: Teaching Assistant to a 200-level literature course; Writing Center Tutor.

Columbia, SC

• As Editor of biannual Yemassee Journal:
• Oversaw all aspects of publication, including reading submissions, rights and acquisition, layout and design, printing, finance and budgeting, sales and subscriptions, marketing.
• Managed a team of five editors, facilitate communication and workflow through a team of fifteen-twenty readers, serve as communication liaison to faculty advisor and department dean.
• Coordinated social media including twitter and facebook as well as regular email contact with subscriber list; responsible for all online content.
• Directed a rebranding initiative, including new website design, new logo, new printing specifications.
• Managed transition of submissions system from paper-based to electronic based.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Read and reported on manuscript submissions, both solicited and unsolicited, with special emphasis in poetry projects.
• Designed and implemented new submissions screening process to eliminate backlog.
• Copy edited (including pagination and cover proofs) multiple manuscript projects and conducted research under direction of editors.
• Assisted with direct mail campaigns and development/fundraising initiatives.

Nashville, TN

• Planned and executed all aspects of author events and non-author events held in store and offsite, including sales projections and ordering; maintained working relationships with publisher representatives.
• Hosted events; assembled and supervised events hosting team.
• Maintained communication at each stage of event planning with store employees, publisher representatives, and local media; Recorded details of all events, maintained database tracking attendance, sales, advertising.
• Worked closely with Marketing Manager to develop marketing and advertisement plans for promotion of events.
• Worked as bookseller from May 2008-September 2008; received promotion after three months.

Mfa, Creative Writing

Activities and Societies: James Dickey Fellow

Ba, English

Activities and Societies: Presidential Scholar