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New York City Metropolitan Area

Edit content for brand voice, style, and grammar for Editorial and Integrated Content teams, following channel-specific style guides.Write compelling articles across various topics, incorporating SEO best practices to enhance visibility and align with brand content standards.Write copy for The Brand Collective podcast, including email, newsletter, and social content to promote episodes.

Edit five books I acquired while full-time at W. W. Norton for publication in 2025, working directly with authors, agents, and in-house editors.

Greater New York City Area

Developed a list in literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. My nine acquisitions include Ashley Hutson’s debut novel One’s Company (June 2022), a July Indie Next Pick; Margo Steines’s memoir Brutalities (October 2023); three other debut novels; and four works of nonfiction in Graphic History, True Crime, and Science.Edited manuscripts with detailed feedback, both structurally and at the line level, in conversation with authors.Cultivated a wide network of agents and literary contacts.Supported Executive Editor Jill Bialosky. Between 2019 and 2022, I also assisted Editor Quynh Do and her successor Jessica Yao, managing over 40 titles annually.Collaborated on publication strategies for frontlist paperback and backlist titles as part of the Trade Paperback Working Group, and served as editor for three paperback reissues.Liaised with Sales, Publicity, and Marketing departments to create unified messaging and positioning for each title.Pursued projects for acquisition, presenting submissions to Norton’s editorial board for support, developing strong offers, and participating in auctions.Hired, trained, and supervised editorial interns.

Greater New York City Area

Supported Executive Editor Jill Bialosky by reviewing proposals and manuscripts for literary fiction and nonfiction, generating readers reports and editorial memos, and corresponding with authors.Drafted catalog and jacket copy for each title, as well as tip sheets with comp title research and presentations for sales conferences.Oversaw mailings, blurb outreach, and production for an annual list of over 30 titles.

Greater New York City Area

My responsibilities include reading submissions, writing reports detailing my response—with particular emphasis on marketing and comparable titles—as well as tagging manuscripts for CIP, completing research projects to compile lists of authors who may provide blurbs, and generally assisting the Assistant Editor.

Greater New York City Area

Read submissions, write concise reader’s reports to communicate my thoughts, and draft timely letters of decline.Read manuscripts and communicate my editorial suggestions to the editor and editorial assistant.Draft copy for the Norton catalogue, book jackets, title information sheets, and book mailing letters.Pull quotes from reviews, aggregate praise into an organized document, and enter it in Quickview.Combine research, creative thinking, and knowledge of the market to find comp titles for title information sheets, noting both why the titles’ sales can be related to the manuscript and the differences between them.Organize mailings and complete general office tasks to assist the editorial assistant.

Coulommiers, Île-De-France, France

Taught English as a second language in two French high schools—one vocational and one general—both alone and with another teacher.Prepared lesson plans tailored to different levels of English, focusing on spoken English and using subjects related to the rest of my students’ English coursework when required.

Providence, Ri

Reorganized and labeled works within the special collections, compared duplicates, and paged works for visiting researchers.Completed long-term projects without supervision—including shifting and cataloguing collections—and directed library patrons, informing them about the use of the library and its current exhibitions.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Copyedited submissions for a student literary magazine centered on travel and culture. Worked with a team of copyeditors to review pieces.

Translated over half of the French novel "L'Ardeur des Pierres," by Celine Curiol, a work that has yet to be translated into English. Wrote a critical introduction to the work and my translation of it, and presented my thesis at the end of the year. Met with Celine Curiol, who supported my translation and gave me feedback for moving forward with it.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Read and edited translation submissions from my peers for Brown University's only translation publication, participated in discussions about layout and editing, and worked with a particular translator to fully prepare their submission for publication.Created a vision for the journal’s aesthetic direction—establishing a focus on visual art as a form of translation, in keeping with the journal’s mission—and solicited and reviewed illustration submissions.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Responsible for the planning of major club events, such as Oktoberfest.Attended weekly club meetings to discuss future club events, budgeting, advertising, and student involvement with German culture.

Reviewed literary submissions, researched new advertising solutions and created a spreadsheet to organize my findings.

Bachelor'S Degree, Comparative Literature, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Aldus Translation Journal: Editorial Board German Club: Events CoordinatorFocused on translation from French.

Deutsche Literatur

Direct enrollment during the German Sommersemester, the spring semester of my junior year.

L'Histoire De L'Art

Direct enrollment during the fall semester of my junior year.

Littérature Française

Direct enrollment during the fall semester of my junior year.

Education record

Cross-enrollment for a winter session course during my sophomore year.