Our Team
Our editorial team is made up of talented book editors who specialize in everything from big-picture developmental edits to fine-tuning line edits and polishing copy. We've worked with everyone from major publishing houses to indie authors, and several of us are published writers ourselves.
We've got the expertise to handle any genre you can imagine: from thrilling mysteries and heart-pounding romances to thought-provoking memoirs and mind-bending sci-fi. No matter what kind of story you're telling, we have an editor who can help you bring it to life.
Click on an editor’s name to read their bio
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Lisa Wong is a freelance editor specializing in developmental and manuscript evaluations. When she is not assisting Artful Editor with business and editorial tasks, she works as an assistant editor for Art + Deco Agency, LCS Literary, and as an in-house editor and ghostwriter for ArtHouse Literary.
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Nicole Maggi is the author of the National Park Mystery Series, the first book of which is A Murder in Zion. She also penned The Forgetting, an International Thriller Writers Thriller Award Finalist, a Junior Library Guild selection and a #1 Kindle Bestseller, as well as What They Don’t Know.
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Jenny Bartoy is a French American writer, developmental editor, and critic. She’s the editor of No Contact: Writers on Estrangement (Catapult, 2026). Her work appears in several anthologies and publications.
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Ernesto Mestre is an award-winning novelist, editor, writing coach, and translator. He has taught at several prestigious MFA writing programs over the last two decades, and his work has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Jackson Palmer is the author of The Meek, The Monster, and The Man (a dystopian trilogy), and is currently penning the first installment to a fantasy series. He studied drama, acting, and playwriting at the University of Montana before touring the nation in a repertory theatre company.
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Christi Martin specializes in copyediting and proofreading for speculative fiction and creative nonfiction. She is passionate about equipping writers with the skills they need to publish excellent books.
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Kim Stoker has over fifteen years of professional editing experience. She specializes in academic writing and works of literature. She has an MFA in poetry from Antioch University and an MA in Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii.
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Michael Jauchen has been a freelance editor for over twenty years, working with authors at all skill levels and across many different genres. He has a PhD in English, with a specialty in fiction writing, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Santa Monica Review, and the Rumpus.
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Ashley Henshaw has been a writer and editor for over fifteen years, working with both business clients and individual authors. She has a BA in English from Loyola University Chicago and previously worked for a publishing house. Her specialties include manuscript critiques, line edits, developmental edits, and book proposals.
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Denise Logsdon is an editor and ghostwriter. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and began her career more than twenty-five years ago as an in-house technical editor for environmental scientists. Since then, she has worked with countless scholars, journalists, and authors of literary fiction and memoir.
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Cheryl Murphy-Lowrance has been editing and coaching authors for over thirty years. She started proofreading for the Department of Defense Contracting Office on an army post at fifteen years old as part of a work-experience program, then later earned a certificate in editing from UC Berkeley, and has worked with words ever since.
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Susan McGrath has been a freelance copyeditor and proofreader for over fifteen years, working with independent authors, small publishing houses, and traditional publishers, including Perseus Books, St. Martin’s Press, Simon and Schuster, and Harlequin.
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Amanda Kruse has a BA in creative writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder as well as graduate-level publishing certification from the University of Denver. For over a decade now, she has worked as a full-time writer and editor with small presses and indie authors.
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Robin Samuels began writing stories almost as soon as she could read them. About a dozen years ago, she realized her true passion is for helping other writers to shape and polish their words, express themselves in the most clear and vivid way possible, and feel confident about the work they are sending out into the world.
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Kara Aisenbrey specializes in fantasy and science fiction. She loves collaborating with authors so their prose sings and their characters capture hearts. Epic, steampunk, space travel, fairy tale, dystopian, paranormal romance—Kara loves all things weird and wondrous.
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Matthew Scarsbrook is a developmental editor with over a decade of experience, specializing in literary, crime, mystery, historical fiction, and memoir. He holds an MA in Creative Writing and enjoys collaborating with both first-time and established authors to help them bring their stories to life.
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Michael J. Totten is an award-winning journalist and the author of ten books, including his most recent, Write, Edit, Publish. His first book, The Road to Fatima Gate, won the Washington Institute Book Prize. His fifth, Resurrection, has been optioned for film. He edits books for major publishers, provides the full spectrum of independent publishing services, and coaches beginning and semiprofessional writers.
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Todd Summar writes essays and fiction and serves as an editor for publishers and individuals. His work has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, PANK, Literary Hub, and Joyland, among others. He is the founding editor of Goreyesque, an online literary journal that featured fabulist fiction, poetry, and artwork, and he also edits short stories for The Masters Review.
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Lyric Dodson is a ghostwriter and developmental editor specializing in self-help, personal development, spirituality, and Black/Indigenous wisdom books. She earned a BA in English and a certificate in creative nonfiction writing from Northern Illinois University, and she's currently training with Wambtac Communications's Ghostwriting Professional Designation Program.
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Jennifer Kepler has worked as a professional editor for over a decade. A former in-house managing editor, she now freelances full-time, editing both fiction and nonfiction for publishers and independent authors.
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For more than twenty years, Christina Palaia has assisted both authors and publishers in preparing fiction and nonfiction manuscripts for publication. She specializes in developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading fiction, narrative nonfiction, creative nonfiction, and scholarly trade nonfiction.