Book Editing
Do you need a skilled and experienced editor for your creative project? I would love to work with you and your words. I provide developmental and line edits for literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Above all, I will honor your words and ideas––they're yours, not mine. My driving questions throughout will be: What is the writer's vision? How can I best support that vision?
I have 12+ years of writing and editing experience in the nonprofit sector, the creative world, and teaching and facilitation settings.
I offer a free 30-minute consultation and charge on a project basis.
"As a poet herself, Leila’s talent lies in her special sensitivity to words and ideas—her keen sense of their intertwined music and meaning. Consistently, throughout her editorial work on my short story collection, her instincts for pulling back, pushing for development, and cutting outright had an exquisite sense of correctness. There was balance and care on the word, sentence, and story level—an editorial range and exactitude no writer can live without. Like any writer deep in the weeds on a piece, I had been finding it difficult to see the work with fresh eyes—but with Leila’s notes, automatically trustworthy because of their innate artistry, a path forward became clear again. Her feedback inspired a whole round of revisions that demonstrably improved the collection."
- Ben O.
