Specializing in academic and developmental editing

I am Lenore Hietkamp, a professional editor and writer. I've been freelancing as a writer since 1998 and as an editor since 2000.

After completing an MA in art history at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, I lived, worked and breathed as a PhD student. I specialized in the field of art and architectural history at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA from 2000 to 2007, when I decided I had to do fulltime what I had been doing on and off for at least 10 years: editing, but editing as if it were my passion, my life's work. I still occasionally write and curate in my academic role.

That academic experience has given me a good understanding of how we humans communicate, which helped me decide to pursue a career as an editor.

Studying art and architectural history is one of those endeavours that forever changes your perspective on life. Because I've spent so many years of my life analyzing art--that ultimate expression of self--and its history, the act of expression has become the equivalent of communication. Analyzing communication and improving it has seeped into my pores. I see connections between text and idea and image that are critical to good writing.

Because of my experience with both graduate and undergraduate student writers, I've developed a keen interest in helping writers develop their ideas. Such development is not always required, though, so with anyone who begins working with me, I work out the level of editing required. I am particularly interested in working with writers for whom English is not their first language.

And now, fiction...

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