Vehicle Editions
Grants and AwardsExhibitionsAvailable TitlesOut of Print Titles
Professional Services
ResumeEditorial and Production ServicesProfessional ExperienceWriting Samples
Writing
WritingBooksMagazinesPoems
Music
About
Annabel LeeVehicle Editions
Contact
  • Annabel Lee

Resume

Full-time Freelance Medical Editor, WebMD/ Medscape

New York, NY: October 2016–Present

Copyediting, proofreading, grammar, use of Stedman’s Medical Dictionary and AMA style across digital platforms for initial scripts, initial builds, brand and MLR feedback to scripts and builds, tagging and tracking codes, and final products

  • Handled tasks using Workfront, Box, Proof HQ and other applications
  • Text and ISIs for diverse indications, including oncology, hematology, pulmonary, HIV, neurology, dermatology, cardiology, diabetes and others for diverse clients, both global (Germany, Italy and others) and U.S. including Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Sanofi, Bayer, GSK, Novartis, Merck, and others

Medical Editor

Grey Advertising, Men’s Health

New York NY: December 2015–October 2016

Copyediting, proofreading, fact checking, grammar and AMA style for Eli Lilly products

Senior Editor

H4B Chelsea/Havas Health,

New York NY: Full-time on staff October 2013–November 2015;

Freelance in-house November 2011–October 2013

Copyediting, proofreading, fact checking, grammar and AMA style primarily for Astellas products and for Alcon contact lenses and ophthalmological products

Editorial Services and Publications Consultant:

Project based or less than a year per client

Design, writing, editing, copyediting, proofreading, typesetting, printing, layout and production of books, magazines, brochures and posters (specifics per client and further details available upon request)

  • Clients have included McGraw-Hill Education (the Encyclopedia and Yearbook of Science and Technology); Cape Cod Compositors (including projects for John Wiley and Sons); Galen Press; Namta Press; HC Language Solutions; House of Nehesi Publishers; PreMedia Global for Pearson Prentice-Hall; Prof-Edit (including projects for John Wiley and Sons, Facts on File, The College Board, Chelsea House, New York State Statistical Yearbook, Cambridge University Press); Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation; The Franklin Library; Stonehill Publishing Company; Sojourner Truth Printing Collective; People’s Printing Cooperative; numerous authors, filmmakers and composers

Executive Director of Marketing

Terra Holdings/Brown Harris Stevens/Halstead Property, New York NY: 1998–2003

  • Proposed and implemented an in-house marketing materials program for 575 brokers
  • Generated hundreds of thousands of materials including show sheets, postcards, newsletters
  • Provided writing and editorial services to Brown Harris Stevens residential sales division
  • Wrote style book for all corporate divisions
  • In charge of purchasing equipment and materials and budgeting for publications program
  • Wrote biographical profiles of real estate brokers for Brown Harris Stevens website
  • Served residential and commercial sales, mortgage, insurance and management divisions
  • Utilized desktop publishing programs incorporating digitalized images and web-based text

Publisher, Vehicle Editions

New York NY: 1976–Present

  • Founded company, developed and managed collaborative business and artistic projects
  • Responsible for editorial work, design, production, book printing and binding
  • Find further details at www.vehicleeditions.com

U.S. Sales Representative

Printing and Binding Services

  • Arti Grafiche Motta, Milan, Italy and New York NY 1988–1990
  • Comproject BV, Baarn, Holland and New York NY 1984–1986

Production Manager

Aperture Foundation, New York NY: 1986–1987

  • Book and magazine production and on-press quality control

Education

Copyediting, proofreading, grammar, use of Stedman’s Medical Dictionary and AMA style across digital platforms for initial scripts, initial builds, brand and MLR feedback to scripts and builds, tagging and tracking codes, and final products

  • M.A., Montclair State University, Montclair NJ: education and literacy
  • B.A., SUNY, Empire State College, New York NY: creative writing and literatures
  • Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY: majored in creative writing and literature
  • French language proficiency; German language (NYU Deutsches Haus); Italian language (Pratt Institute); Spanish language (The Spanish Institute and Berlitz); Russian language (Columbia University and The New School)

Grants and Awards

  • Fast Lanes by Jayne Anne Phillips (Vehicle Editions): International Gallery of Superb Printing Award
  • Smithsonian Depositions by Clark Coolidge (Vehicle Editions): nominated for the Pushcart Prize
  • just let me do it by Michael Lally (Vehicle Editions): finalist for the Elliston Book Award
  • New York State Council on the Arts, Literature Program, Publications Grant
  • Counting by Jayne Anne Phillips (Vehicle Editions): St. Lawrence Award for Fiction
  • National Endowment for the Arts, Small Press Grant, Two Fellowships to the Editor

Publications

Basket, Selected Poems, Accent Editions, Chester NY; At the Heart of the World by Blaise Cendrars, translation from the French, O Press, New York NY; Essay Confessions of a Teacher in a “No Excuses” Charter School published by Diane Ravitch on her blog http://dianeravitch.net/2014/03/27/confessions-of-a-teacher-in-a-no-excuses-charter-school/; Essays The natural connection and A market correction in local real estate appeared in The Chatham Press; On Hudson, web content for www.hudsoncityradio.com; Essay included in A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980 by Rodney Phillips and Steven Clay, The New York Public Library and Granary Books, New York NY; Craft International Magazine commissioned the essay “Confessions of a Publisher”; poetry and prose published in approximately 50 magazines and anthologies

Professional Affiliations

New York, NY: October 2016–Present

Member of the Board of Directors, The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, New York NY

Former member of the Board of Directors, Center for Book Arts, New York NY

References available on request