University of Mississippi University, MS
Master of Arts, May 1997, English, Major GPA: 4.00, Overall GPA: 4.00

Thesis: "Frozen Ecstasy: Home Finding and Escape in the Short Stories of Jayne Anne Phillips" (optimized for printing here; optimized for Web viewing here)

California State University Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Arts, March 1994, English, Major GPA: 4.00, Overall GPA: 4.00

WORK EXPERIENCE

2012-present

The University of Georgia Press Athens, GA

Assistant Director for Editorial, Design, and Production

• Supervised department of six people
• Set and monitored department budget
• Sought further efficiencies in schedule and finances
• Acted as liaison with authors and oversaw proofreading and copyediting of 20-30 books per year, in such subjects as history, southern studies, and environmental studies, as well as select creative work

2008-2012

Managing Editor

• Supervised department of three people
• Set and monitored department budget
• Acted as liaison with authors and oversaw proofreading and copyediting of 20-30 books per year, in such subjects as history, southern studies, and environmental studies, as well as select creative work

Assistant Managing Editor

• Hired, trained, and oversaw student employees and interns (one to two per semester)
• Acted as liaison with authors and oversaw proofreading and copyediting of 20-30 books per year, in such subjects as history, southern studies, and environmental studies, as well as select creative work
• Logged permissions paperwork and organized art for 15-20 books a year
• Acquired art and permissions for select projects (1-3 per year)
• Copyedited 1-2 books per year
• Served as EDP manager in manager's absence

Project Editor

• Hired, trained, and oversaw student employees and interns (one to two per semester)
  
• Acted as liaison with authors and oversaw proofreading and copyediting of 15-25 books per year, in such subjects as history, southern studies, and environmental studies, as well as select creative work
  
• Logged permissions paperwork and organized art for 10-15 books a year
  
• Acquired art and permissions for select projects (1-3 per year)
  
• Copyedited 1-4 books per year
  
• Served as managing editor during editor's maternity leave, and other absences

Athens, GA
Freelance Copyeditor and Proofreader

• Copyedited texts for packaging house Black Dot (including texts for Pearson and Houghton Mifflin), Georgia State University's Welch Art Gallery, and assorted authors
• Proofread texts for packaging house Black Dot (including texts for Houghton Mifflin), Sam Houston State University Press, the McWhiney Foundation, and assorted authors

Harcourt College Publishers Fort Worth, TX
Senior Project Editor

• Helped assess standard design elements for master key-marking list for implementation with XML
• Mentored an intern
  
• Acted as liaison with authors and oversaw proofreading and copyediting of 6 books per year plus ancillaries, mainly on the Spanish and English lists (but also on scattered Economics and Investments titles)

Project Editor

• Mentored a new project editor
• Wrote and compiled survey regarding electronic editing for compositors
• Planned and coordinated a copyediting seminar for in-house and freelance staff
• Acted as liaison with authors and oversaw proofreading and copyediting of 6-9 books per year plus ancillaries, mainly on the Spanish and English lists (but also on scattered Economics and Investments titles)

Keith Daniels and Associates Temporaries Los Angeles, CA
Temp

• Proofread for downtown legal firm on call
  
• Filed for Santa Monica legal firm

University of Mississippi University, MS
Graduate Instructor in English

• Taught English 101 (Freshman Composition, Part 1)
  
• Taught English 102 (Freshman Composition, Part 2)
  
• Taught English 200 (Introduction to Literature)
  
• Developed course packets of exercises for English 101 and 102
  
• Established office hours to aid students
  
• Wrote syllabi
  
• Developed tests and essay assignments

Fiction Editor, Yalobusha Review

• Selected works of fiction to be published in literary journal
  
• Typeset the publication using PageMaker
  
• Contacted printers to attain bids

Barnes & Noble Bookstore Pasadena, CA
Clerk

• Bookkeeping (day sheets)
• Cashiering
• Special order assistant
• Shelving

Hunter’s Books Pasadena, CA
Assistant Manager

• Mass paperback book buyer
  
• Accounting (petty cash and day sheets)
  
• Scheduling
  
• Clerk duties

Clerk

• Cashier
  
• Aided customers with finding books

• Proficient in Microsoft Word XP; working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and HTML
  
• Strong writing skills—extensive college course work in creative, scholarly, and journalistic writing and editing
  
• Public speaking experience—four years high school speech club; club president 1987-1988

• Quarterfinalist, Blue Cat Screenplay competition (2010)
• Semifinalist, Saint Lawrence Book Award (2007)
  
• GEM (Going the Extra Mile) award (2000), for work on Hodges’ Harbrace Handbook
  
• Ella Sommerville Award for Fiction, University of Mississippi (1995)
  
• First place, Poetry, Imperial High School (1988)
  
• First place, Speak Off, Imperial High School (1987)