Services
The world urgently needs more authentic stories
—and I’m here to help you write yours.
I offer writing coaching, developmental editing, and workshops for disabled and/or LGBTQIA+ writers. I am also enthusiastic to lead workshops, trainings, and presentations for the broader literary community.
Individual & Team Coaching
Individual Coaching
As your coach I will patiently and purposefully guide you to clarify your writing goals, build your skills, and maximize your progress at the pace that works best for you.
Whether you have a rough project idea, full draft, or work in progress, I provide the necessary feedback, support, and guidance to meaningfully propel you forward. I am here to support you through obstacles, root on your momentum, and celebrate your successes.
My areas of expertise include:
Memoir, including experimental and hybrid forms (e.g. poetry and prose, narrative and research)
Personal essays and narrative nonfiction
Autofiction (autobiographical fiction based on your life experience)
Who this is for:
Aspiring or emerging nonfiction writers with project ideas or manuscripts in progress intended for publication
Newsletter, blog, or Substack creators who want to incorporate compelling personal stories
People who wish to build a writing practice to deepen self-understanding, whether for private use or to share with a broader audience
What’s next:
I’d love to discuss your needs and how I can help. Book your free consultation here.
Or, if you know you’re ready to get started, select from a range of coaching packages to purchase here.
I am excited to learn about you and your writing goals!
Questions? Please contact me.
Team Coaching
I help teams of two or more working on shared writing projects make creative and strategic decisions to ensure the process goes as smoothly as possible and the end-result shines its brightest.
Team coaching provides a:
Facilitated container for learning and reflection
Fun opportunity to cultivate group cohesion
Space to give and receive thoughtful, honest feedback
By centering accessibility practices, I will also help you create shared agreements and plans that honor the needs and contributions of everyone on your team.
What’s next:
I would love to learn more about your team’s coaching objectives and how I can best support your needs. Book your free consultation here.
Questions? Please contact me.
Special areas of expertise
People who have erased “invisible” disabilities and contested illnesses
Deep feelers, highly sensitive people, and empaths
Queer, trans, gender expansive, and intersex experiences
Fat and multiply marginalized people
Sick, Mad, Crip, and Spoonie identities
People of Jewish lineage and/or experiences
Siblings (I am one, myself!) of people who have intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities
“Others”—people who often feel like outsiders or outcasts
I offer a limited number of reduced-rate services for people who are financially oppressed and underrepresented in literature. Contact me for more information.
Developmental Editing
My goal as your developmental editor is to help you utilize your existing brilliance, originality, and creativity to bring your story to its greatest possible version.
I am guided by three core questions:
What is already fabulous and shining?
Where is your manuscript stuck or not working?
What changes are needed to successfully get it where it’s going?
Using these questions, I will provide you with specific and clear recommendations for areas of improvement, such as structure, setting, voice, character, plot, and pacing, to fully immerse your readers.
By building on your existing strengths and what is already working well in your manuscript, I will show you how to generate the forward momentum to maximize your story’s impact.
What’s next:
I’d love to discuss your needs and how I can help. Book your free consultation here.
Or, if you know you’re ready to get started, purchase developmental editing here.
I am excited to learn about you and your writing goals!
Questions? Please contact me.
Workshops, Trainings, and Presentations
I am available to lead workshops, interactive trainings, and presentations tailored to groups and audiences of all sizes and experience levels.
My areas of expertise include creative nonfiction, disability and LGBTQIA+ representation in literature, disability studies, social justice/anti-oppression, narrative medicine, and health humanities.
Example topics include:
Elevating Authentic Disability Representation: how to realistically and respectfully portray disability in your writing
Take Back Your Truths: reflective writing to uproot your pain-shaming stories and the stigmas that fuel them
Writing from Your “Lived Body”: phenomenological and embodied writing practices to attune your writing
Writing for Coping and Hoping: writing exercises to help process difficult experiences
Metaphors, Language, and the Body: how ableist conceits are embedded in language and generating our own languages of liberation
Who’s Narrating Your Story?: finding the voice, tense, and part(s) of you to tell your most authentic truths
Framing to Set You Free: an examination of different approaches to establishing your narrative frame such as temporal (time), location, and subject- or concept-based
I would love to discuss how I may customize a workshop, training, or presentation for your group or audience. Book your free consultation here.
Questions? Please contact me.
