Résumé

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

▪ Private Contract editor, various individuals, plus New Lines Magazine, 2019–present

▪ Contract editor, Eerdmans Publishing Co. (www.eerdmans.com), 2017–18

▪ Editor, Eisenbrauns Publishing, formerly in Winona Lake, IN, 1990–2016 (now an imprint of Penn State University,
www.eisenbrauns.org)

▪ Contract proofreader, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI (www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/bakeracademic), 2008–10

▪ Contract editor and typesetter for Oxford University Press (Dead Sea Scrolls official series publication,
  ukcatalogue.oup.com—search for Discoveries in the Judaean Desert), 1990–93

▪ Contract English editor and typesetter, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, Israel (www.magnespress.co.il/en), 1986–90

▪  Adjunct instructor, English composition and introduction to literature (Grace College, www.grace.edu), 1982–83

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

▪ Middle Eastern culture and languages (lived 6 years in Israeli Jerusalem and in Palestinian West Bank)

▪ European culture and languages (traveling and editing academic texts; some reading knowledge of French, German,
Swedish, Modern and Biblical Hebrew)

▪ Teaching English as a second language, private tutor

▪ Editing English articles and dissertations written by speakers of other languages (postgraduate level)

▪ Editing English books and articles for multilingual university professors

EDUCATION

▪ 12 hrs. toward M.A. in Linguistics, several schools

▪ B.A., magna cum laude, English and music education (Grace College, Winona Lake, IN, www.grace.edu)

▪ Honor Student, Benson High School, Omaha, NE, and Ankeny High School, Ankeny, IA

HISTORY OF SKILLS

Academic editing, mixed-languages text (left-to-right and right-to-left). FrameMaker, InDesign, Microsoft Word. Typesetting (multiple scripts). Communicating well with authors and
co-workers.

AWARD-WINNING PUBLICATIONS

▪ Pierre Briant. From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002. (Trans. of
award-winning Histoire de l’Empire Perse: De Cyrus a Alexandre, 1996.)

▪ Jean Bottéro. Textes Culinaires Mesopotamiens: Mesopotamian Culinary Texts. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1995. (Winner
of the 1996 Langhe Ceretto /Societa Editrice Internazionale Prize for food and wine culture.)

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

▪ Volunteered at a local safe house for sex-trafficked women, teaching cooking and Bible study in 2015

▪ Volunteered for 3 years at a local adult literacy program

▪ Participated in local racial integration seminars and church-school activities

▪ Studied in women’s Bible study groups at church for 5 years

▪ Retired volunteer musician in local, interdenominational church