I’m a native English editor and language specialist with over 16 years of experience, based in Prague since 2017.
My clients already work in English. My job is to make sure their language lands — accurately, clearly, and in the right register — with the institutions, partners, and audiences they answer to.
I work across three areas that share one thread: high-stakes English for organizations whose words carry responsibility.
Institutional and governmental communications.
Final English for public bodies and cultural institutions, including ongoing work for Prague Castle and the Czech Senate, and the closing presentation of the Czech Republic's 2022 EU Council Presidency, prepared for European heads of state.
Academic and scholarly editing.
Copyediting of books, journals, and research across the humanities, social sciences, and medicine — among them ongoing work for Karolinum Press, the university press of Charles University, since 2017, and journals in fields from nursing and public health to migration, urban studies, and political theory.
Publishing.
Over 16 years, I've copyedited for Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, and others, across fiction, nonfiction, and academic titles.
My interest in human rights has personal roots.
My family were German Jews from Adelsheim, a community wiped out in the Holocaust; a great-uncle survived Dachau and escaped abroad. In Prague, I've edited scholarship on democratic resilience and electoral integrity for Charles University, and Western Balkans policy analysis for the Czech Academy of Sciences. Last fall, I taught writing at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, where some of my students were Ukrainian refugees — history rhyming, if not repeating. It's work I'm glad to do, and the kind I look for: organizations trying to do something worth doing — to help people, to preserve something, to say something true, in language careful enough to be worthy of it.
I hold an MFA in Creative Writing (University of Montana) and a BA in English (University of Texas). I'm also a published author of three poetry collections, with literary representation by Transatlantic Agency. I work remotely with clients across Europe and worldwide, and operate as a licenced Czech trade entity with EU invoicing.
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