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Professional Experience

WebMD/Medscape – Medical Editor

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

October 2016–Present, New York, NY

Grey Advertising – Medical Editor

Copyedting, proofreading, fact checking, grammar and AMA style for Eli Lilly products, primarily Men's Health: Cialis

December 2015–Ocrober 2016, New York NY

H4B Chelsea/Havas Health – Senior Editor

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

Full-time on staff October 2013–November 2015

Freelance in-house November 2011–October 2013

New York, NY



Other Clients



Persea Books

Asleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Persea, An International Review, Vol. 1, No. 1

Proofreading and typesetting

1977: Persea Books (Michael and Karen Braziller), Little Italy, New York NY

Timken Publishers, Inc.,

Letters from H.C. Westermann Selected and edited by Bill Barrette

Book design, typesetting, layout and mechanicals

1987-1988: Fred M. Kleeberg Associates, Inc. and office of Vehicle Editions, Little Italy, New York NY

Books and Co. Bookstore

Letters to a Bookstore: 1978-1988

Book design, editorial work, layout and production management

1988: Books & Co., Madison Avenue, New York NY and office of Vehicle Editions, Little Italy, New York NY

Balance House, Inc., projects for Abrams and Dutton

Production and editorial consulting

Assisted Marshall Lee with projects for Abrams and Dutton

Including a book on Erté

1986: Balance House, Inc., Midtown, New York NY

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation

Design and production of a poster-sized mailing piece

Promotion of films and videotapes about Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Utilization of a Jasper Johns Target poster, printed on the back and folded down

1979: Office of Vehicle Editions, Little Italy, New York NY

The Franklin Mint Corporation

Reader’s Guides for The Franklin Library:

Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

1978-1980: The Franklin Library, Midtown, New York NY

Craft International Magazine

Writer: Confessions of a Publisher for The State of the Book Arts Issue, Winter 1984

Editorial work on NEA-NEH Symposium on Crafts

Typesetting, composition and design for Issues 1981-1983

1981-1983: Craft International office, Little Italy, New York NY

The World Crafts Council
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Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

Design, mechanicals, production and shipping arrangements for 1988 season poster

Incorporated artwork by Yvonne Jacquette

1987: Office of Vehicle Editions, Little Italy, New York NY

Comproject BV

U.S. Sales Representative for printing and binding services offered by Dutch firms

Worked with clients in California, Washington DC, and the New York metropolitan area

Projects with Running Press, Quarto, Abbeville, Knopf

1984-1986: Comproject BV, Baarn, Holland and at Vehicle Editions office, Little Italy, New York NY

Aperture Foundation

Production Manager, on-press quality control for 1-color, 2-color, 4-color and 5-color projects; press okays, supervision of assistants, cost analysis, scheduling

Markings: Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes photographs by Marilyn Bridges, 1986: production management, scheduling, on-press quality control at Arti Grafiche Amilcare Pizzi, S.p.A, Milan, Italy.

Aperture Issue 105—India: Ritual and the River, 1986: production management, on-press quality control at Arti Grafiche Amilcare Pizzi, S.p.A, Milan, Italy.

Literary Britain: Landmarks, Landscapes and Houses of the Great Writers and Poets photographs by Bill Brandt. Produced in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Production management, scheduling, on-press quality control at Westerham Press, Kent, England, UK.

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin, production management

1984-1986: Aperture, office at 23rd Street at Madison Avenue, New York NY

McGraw-Hill

Copyediting and proofreading of numerous articles for the annual yearbooks

2010-2013: Office of Vehicle Editions, Jersey City NJ

John Wiley and Sons

Freelance editorial services

Facts on File

Freelance editorial services

The College Board

Freelance editorial services

Chelsea House

Editorial assistant

1973: Chelsea House Publishing offices, Midtown, New York NY

New York State Statistical Guide

Freelance Editorial Services

Statistical Guide (several years)

Cambridge University Press
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Cardozo School of Law
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Yeshiva University
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Harry N. Abrams

Production and editorial consulting

Dutton

Production and editorial consulting

Rogner and Bernhard GmBH

Served as Vice President and Manager of U.S. book projects for temporary New York office

1981: R&B office, Munich, Germany and Lower East Side, New York NY

Z Press, Calais VT

Library research for opera about Lola Montez

1975: Z Press office, West Village, New York NY

Arti Grafiche Motta, Milan, Italy

U.S. Sales Representative

Printing and Binding Services

Worked with clients in the New York metropolitan area

1988–90: Arti Grafiche Motta, Milan, Italy and at Vehicle Editions office, Little Italy, New York NY

Comproject BV

U.S. Sales Representative for printing and binding services offered by Dutch firms

Worked with clients in California, Washington DC, and the New York metropolitan area

Projects with Running Press, Quarto, Abbeville, Knopf

1984-1986: Comproject BV, Baarn, Holland and at Vehicle Editions office, Little Italy, New York NY

Galen Press

Medical writing and editing several manuscripts including:

Integrating Safety into the Practice of Drug-Eluting Stent Deployment, supplement to the American Journal of Cardiology, Volume 100 (8)

2007-2008: Galen Press, Austerlitz NY

Family Business Publishing Company

Copyediting and proofreading

2000: Family Business Publishing Company, Great Barrington, MA

The Stamford Review, Stamford, NY
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Ruth Kligman

Ghost writing Gloria (unfinished novel) about the patriarchy being destroyed by women

At the home of Ruth Kligman, West 14th Street, New York NY

Jean Stein

Editorial work with Jean Stein and Walter Hopps

Research on Fleur magazine by Fleur Cowles

Plans for an artists-driven journal that never materialized

At the home of Jean Stein, Central Park West, New York NY

David Rosenberg

The archive of The Ant’s Forefoot: inventory and preparation for sale to Andreas Brown at Gotham Book Mart

Blues of the Sky: Interpreted from the Ancient Hebrew Book of Psalms poetry by David Rosenberg, published by Angel Hair Books (1974): editing and proofreading

Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible, edited by David Rosenberg, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York NY (1987): in acknowledgments mentioned for “the steady eye of…,” editorial work

Edited the Afterword to Job Speaks by David Rosenberg, published by Harper & Row, New York NY (1977)

At the office of David Rosenberg, St. Mark’s Place, New York NY

Ruth Kligman

Ghost writing Gloria (unfinished novel) about the patriarchy being destroyed by women

At the home of Ruth Kligman, West 14th Street, New York NY

Robyn Brentano

112 Workshop / 112 Greene Street

History, Artists & Artworks

Edited by Robyn Brentano with Mark Savitt

Paste-ups and mechanicals

1981: at the Byrd Hoffman Loft for New York University Press, Soho, New York NY

Montclair State University

Teaching assignments

Tutor: Literacy Enrichment Center

Professor: Read 099 Pre-College Reading Course: created syllabus for freshman-level literature class (Fiction and Freedom: Beloved by Toni Morrison, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Freedom Riders film), delivered instruction, assessed student written and oral work

2010 – 2012: Montclair State University, Montclair NJ

H4B Chelsea/Havas Health

Senior Medical Editor

2013–2015: H4B Chelsea/Havas Health, Chelsea and Murray Hill, New York NY

Terra Holdings/Brown Harris Stevens/Halstead Property

Executive Director of Marketing

• 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

1999–2003: Terra Holdings/Brown Harris Stevens/Halstead Property, Upper East Side, New York NY

Robert Rauschenberg

Updating address database and rolodex cards

1985-1986: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Lafayette Street, New York NY

Sheep Meadow Press

Design, proofreading and typesetting

Collected Poems by F.T. Prince

The Poems of Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz

1978: for Sheep Meadow Press (Stanley Moss, publisher), at Persea Books office, Little Italy, New York NY

Sojourner Truth Printing Company

Operation of AB Dick 360 offset press; platemaking, film prep and stripping, paste-ups and mechanicals, bookkeeping, ordering paper, office management

1971-72: Sojourner Truth Printing Company, Little Five Points, Atlanta GA

Anchor Books

Proofreading, copyediting and other editorial tasks

Loka 2: A Journal from Naropa Institute edited by Rick Fields

1976: Naropa Institute, Boulder CO

The Institute for Art and Urban Resources / The Clocktower Gallery

Design (developed original concept based on a Max Bill book), layout and mechanicals, copyediting, proofreading

this is tomorrow today: The Independent Group and British Pop Art

1987: Vehicle Editions office for Karen Marta, project editor; Brian Wallis; and Lawrence Wolfson, New York NY

Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pop

1988: Vehicle Editions office for Karen Marta, project editor; Brian Wallis; and Lawrence Wolfson, Little Italy, New York NY

Saturday Morning

Typesetting, editorial work

In acknowledgments “My special thanks to Annabel for her editorial assistance”

1978: Vehicle Editions office for Simon Pettet, editor, Little Italy, New York NY

New Work

Typesetting, design, production, editorial work

1982: Craft International office for New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Hans Frode, editor, Little Italy, New York NY

Macalester College

Chanter 83/84 journal of student writing

Typesetting, design, layout, production

1984: Vehicle Editions temporary offices, Saint Paul, MN and Little Italy, New York NY

Performing Artservices

l’Avant Scène magazine

Wrote and edited article on dance

1980: Performing Artservices, Westbeth, New York NY

Bohdan Boychuck

Editorial work and typsetting of Displaced Persons by Bohdan Boychuck

1980: Office of Paul Pines, Lower East Side, New York NY

Talbot Typographers

Typesetter, galley slave

1977-1978: Office of Talbot Typographers, Little Italy, New York NY

Trevor Winkfield

Bookbinding: Christophe Colomb by François Caradec

1979: office of Vehicle Editions, Little Italy, New York NY

Balkan Arts Center

Assisted Ethel Raim and Martin Koenig with Winter Balkan Festival

1976: Balkan Arts Center, Upper West Side, New York NY

Saint Lawrence University

Received honorarium for participation in conference

Counting by Jayne Anne Phillips (published by Vehicle Editions) received an award

1979: Saranac Lake, New York

Stonehill Publishing Company

Managing Editor, Production Manager

Cost analysis, manuscript solicitations and acquisitions, permissions, scheduling, copy writing, editing, prepress, systematized in-house order department

Journals and Dreams by Anne Waldman – solicited this non-poetry manuscript

Beyond the Looking Glass: Extraordinary Works of Fairy Tale and Fantasy, edited with an introduction by Jonathan Cott – rights, permissions, editing, design

Is There Life on Earth by J.G. Bennett

Psycho-Myth, Psycho-History by Ernest Jones (two volume boxed-set)

Adventures of a Red Sea Smuggler by Henry de Monfreid

The Roses Race Around Her Name, anthology of poems from fathers to daughters, edited by Jonathan Cott

Movies by Manny Farber

Cocaine Papers by Sigmund Freud, edited by Robert Byck

1973-1974: Stonehill Publishing Company office, Midtown, New York NY

John Sinaiko

Script writing, correspondence, permissions and grant writing for films:

The Short End of the Stick: Dowsers

Slocum screenplay treatment

Jerry and Molly and Sam by Raymond Carver

1987-1990: Office of John Sinaiko, Tribeca, New York NY

Hans Kraus Fine Photographs

Layout, design

Sun Pictures: Catalogue Three

1987: Office of Vehicle Editions, Little Italy, New York NY

Simon & Schuster

Nancy Drew books: set up shots

1986: Simon & Schuster offices, Midtown, New York NY

PreMedia Global

Developmental editing and writing

Critical thinking questions, discussion questions, case studies, claim categorization statements for higher education resources for Pearson

2009-2010: Office of Vehicle Editions, Hudson NY

Chrysalis Healing Center

Design and production of brochure

2008: Office of Vehicle Editions, Chatham NY

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Design and branding for clothing store on Crosby Street:

Stationery, shopping bags

2002: Office of Vehicle Editions, East Taghkanic NY

David Henderson

Typesetting, editing, proofreading

Biography of Bob Marley

1984: Office of Vehicle Editions, Little Italy, New York NY

Element Publishers

Publishing consultant for publisher: Richard Ogust

1986: Office of Vehicle Editions, Little Italy, New York NY

Rudy Burckhardt

Design, typesetting, layout, production for a brochure for films

1983: Office of Vehicle Editions, Little Italy, New York NY

Interlaken School of Art

Taught hand bookbinding and collage class for children ages 8 to 12 in Art Passport program under Nova Rockwell

1998: Interlaken School of Art, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Festival of Books

Panelist: Between the Covers, The Creative

2006: Spencertown Academy, Spencertown NY

Berkshire Reading Council

By invitation led a hand bookbinding and paper marbling workshop for 65 language arts teachers: all participants completed a handsewn hardcover book

1998: Berkshire conference facility, Pittsfield, Massachusetts

The Iris Group

TIPS course: Taught intensive ESL, accent reduction, grammar, debating, presentation and public speaking skills to two groups of Chinese high school students for International Academic Alliance classes

2011: The Iris Group classroom, Midown, New York NY

Peter Robinson

Assisted filmmaker with script of his film Asylum about R.D. Laing

1973: Office of Peter Robinson, Upper West Side, New York NY

Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Children’s Trade Division

The Prince of the Dolomites by Tomie Dipaola

Nobody Stole the Pie by Sonia Levitin

Reprint of F. Scott Fitzgerald Notebooks

Virginia Woolf: Letters Volume III

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

Production work, layout and mechanicals

1979-1980 and 1987: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Midtown, New York NY

People’s Printing Cooperative

Layout, stripping, film prep, platemaking, office work for offset shop

Union shop, prepared brochures outlining health risks at GE Plant in Lynn, Mass.

1972: People’s Printing Cooperative, Saugus, Massachusetts

Ruth Kligman

Certificate from Empire State Travel School and CLIA certification

1994-1998: Nejaime’s VIP Travel, Stockbridge MA; Haretage Travel, Great Barrington MA; Northeast Travel Connections, Canaan CT; Taconic Travel, Chatham NY

Hand Bookbinding Workshops

Studied at Center for Book Arts, New York NY

Led workshops at Community of the Arts, Cummington MA; The Free School, Boulder CO; Hampton Day School, Bridgehampton NY; for Nova Rockwell at Interlaken School of Art, Stockbridge MA

Letterpress Printing

In-house printer at Center for Book Arts, New York NY

1975-1983 as needed: Center for Book Arts, Little Italy, New York NY

Typesetting

Center for Book Arts, Craft International magazine, Heresies magazine; World Crafts Council, Sheep Meadow Press, American Fabrics and Fashion magazine, Open Studio Workshop, Nachtmaschine Verlag, Odd Sorts Letter Foundry, Talbot Typographers

Elementary School Teaching

Details available on request