Meet the Editors
Below is a list of editors currently working with Pubmission to provide Editor Ratings and Editor Coaching. Editor Ratings are starred reviews to help boost your visibility on the site. Editor Coaching is a way for you to work one-on-one with an Editor to revise your writing or to help you stay motivated. Click on each editor's name to view a fuller profile on our blog (if available).
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| Editor | Description | Editor Ratings | Editor Coaching |
| Kelly Gunzenhauser | Kelly has worked as a freelance writer and editor for over 13 years. She has written and published eight books. Her specialties include children's and teen fiction and nonfiction, general fiction, child care/parenting, cooking/food, education, gardening, memoir, some science, and travel. Her particular editing specialties are with big-picture, organizational and plot issues within a manuscript, but she can sweat the small stuff, too. | Yes | No |
| Melissa Berry |
Melissa is a contributing freelance writer to national publications for Cultural and Performing Art with a home base in downtown |
Yes | Yes |
| Mark H. Bloom |
A dedicated wordsmith, Mark has contributed to five published books as a writer, including “A Writing Life,” published by Allyn & Bacon in 2001. He worked at Lark Books, a small publisher, for three years, honing his editing skills. |
Yes | Yes |
| Toni Rakestraw | "Editing is my life. I've been writing and editing for over 15 years, working on magazines, newsletters and manuscripts. I have a history with theatre as well as literature." | Yes | Yes |
| A.D. Reed | A.D. has 30 years writing and editing for publications, corporate clients, and writers. Experience with fiction, nonfiction, journalism, marketing, and other writing styles. Devotee of Chicago Manual of Style; comfortable with AP. | Yes | No |
| Jennifer Weaver-Spencer | Jennifer is a professional with over 13 years editing, proofreading, and acquisitions experience in educational publishing. She has edited educational and trade activity books, teacher resources, and storybooks, among other things. She holds a Master of Arts in English from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a Concentration in Writing and editing. | Yes | Yes |
| Rose McLarney | Rose is a published poet, writing instructor, and slush-pile guru. Four Way Books will publish her book, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, in 2012. She's a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, her poems have won Alligator Juniper’s 2011 National Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, Orion, New England Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and many other journals. She earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College. She's also worked in trade publishing and marketing. | Yes |
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| Ingrid Carson | Ingrid Carson honed her skills as a slush-pile reviewer at Front Street Books, a Newbery Award-winning publisher of children’s books and young adult fiction, where she learned to recognize publication potential in a manuscript. As an editor for Metabolism magazine, she reviewed poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She holds a degree in Literature with a focus on creative writing, and has worked as an English teacher in Spain and South America. | Yes | Yes |
| Caroline Mercurio | Caroline Mercurio studied English and anthropology at Appalachian State University and earned her MFA in Writing at Vermont College. She is the Founding Editor of Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, and served for eight years as Managing Editor. She taught writing at Warren Wilson College and now works as a freelance writer and poet. | Yes | Yes |
| Margaret Marchuk |
Margaret has worked as a freelance writer/editor specializing in public relations for more than 20 years for publications,corporate clients and authors. She's also a published author of nonfiction, national magazine articles. Her specialties include general fiction, self-help/inspirational nonfiction, alternative/integrative health careand art manuscripts.
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| Gabe Robinson | Gabe spent five years as an acquisitions editor at HarperCollins, editing both fiction and nonfiction. He learned the trade working with the editor of several NYT bestselling authors, and personally edited a number of acclaimed authors for his own list (NUMB by Sean Ferrell, UNDER THE MERCY TREES by Heather Newton, BRAINS by Robin Becker, GHOST COUNTRY and DEEP SKY by NYT bestseller Patrick Lee, among others). He does mainly developmental and line editing. | Yes | Yes |
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