I am a professional writer, editor, and writing coach with experience in publishing, communications, education, technology, finance, entertainment, and various arts and nonprofit organizations. Audience-focused, highly organized, and exceptionally attentive to detail, I approach all projects with integrity and abundant curiosity.✦ ✦ ✦ Operating both freelance and in-house, I work intimately with authors and content creators, providing all levels of editing services (developmental, substantive, line editing, copyediting, and proofreading) across a wide variety of deliverables—from UX copy to memoir. I prioritize the audience, focusing on how the reader, student, consumer, moviegoer, or podcast listener experiences the content.I am honest, rigorous, and kind. Deeply passionate about the power of language, I advocate for muscular verbs and revel in debating the nuances between prepositions. I work to improve continuity and logic, encourage exploration, and promote mechanics that guide the reader’s eye with exacting precision.A colleague once joked, "Wow, you care a LOT."Yes, I do.✦ ✦ ✦ I am the author of three books: Prey (Benjamin Saltman Award finalist, Black Lawrence Press), Said the Manic to the Muse (Write Bloody Publishing), and Racing Hummingbirds (Independent Publisher Award winner, Write Bloody).I’ve been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, the Third Coast Poetry Prize, and the Sandy Crimmins National Prize, among other honors. My work is featured in over 200 publications, including Academy of American Poets, Adroit, BuzzFeed, VIDA, Muzzle, and Looking for the Enemy (Kendall Hunt).I've served as editor for multiple publications, including Winter Tangerine Review and Union Station Magazine, and have copyedited several award-winning books. I am also a writing and performance coach, facilitating workshops remotely and at schools, theatres, libraries, bookstores, and dive bars across North America.✦ Learn more about my editing practice here: https://www.jeanannverlee.com/editing✦ Browse writing samples here: https://www.jeanannverlee.com/print