Resume

• 2012

  Master of Arts (MA)

  Thesis: \"Blogs

  Books

  & Breadcrumbs: A Case Study of Transmedial Fairy Tales.\"

  English Literature/Folklore

  Brigham Young University

  Editing Visual Design

  African American Folklore

  Children's Publishing

  Sexual Politics in Britain's Long 18th Century

  Greater Mexico

  British Bestsellers of the Early 19th Century

  Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy

  Modern American Usage

  Grammar of English

  Basic Editing Skills

  Fairy Tales & Allied Forms

  Reinventing the Victorian (i.e.

  neo-Victorianism)

  Genre & Substantive Editing (emphasis: scholarly)

  Memory

  Trauma

  Nostalgia

  Print Publishing 1

  Editing for Publication (emphasis: books)

  Web Publishing

  Adaptation Theory

  Creating Fixed-Layout Ebooks for the Kindle

  Lynda.com

  Learning InDesign CC 2015: EPUBs

  Lynda.com

• 2007

  BA

  English

  editing

  Women's Cougar Rugby

  Life the Universe & Everything Symposium

  Brigham Young University

• 2004

  Swimming

  water polo

  Orem High School

• Visualizing Intermedial Fairy Tales

  At the Crossroads of Data and WonderAlgorithmic Visualizations of Fairy-Tales on Television Associated with storytelling at the hearth

  bedtime stories around an illustrated book

  and more frequently with Disney movies and contemporary television dramas

  fairy tales must be (re)considered in parallel with successive breakthroughs in communicative media.

  Visualizing Intermedial Fairy Tales

  Typesetting

  Manuscript Evaluation/Critique

  Manuscript Editing

  Blogging

  Books

  Photoshop

  Microsoft Office

  Notepad++

  InDesign

  HTML

  Editing

  Proofreading

  Ebooks

  Web Editing

  Manuscript Development

  CSS

  Corporate Blogging

  Copy Editing

  Layout

  Writing

  The Familius Christmas Anthology 2012

  Christmas is a time for family and there’s no better way of helping your family enjoy the Christmas spirit than by taking time each night to explore the annual Familius Christmas Anthology. Filled with stories

  poems

  recipes

  and activities to make Christmas time enjoyable

  this collection is literally stuffed with feel-good content and activities that will bring your family together.

  The Familius Christmas Anthology 2012

  The Fyn brewery is the best of its kind—it has mixed souls for centuries. But the brewery's talents attract a dark and frightening customer. His request? A human soul. (Cover story for issue #57.)

  \"Mulled with Sky-souls\"

  The Familius Christmas Anthology: Just for Kids

  Christmas is a time for family and there’s no better way of helping your family enjoy the Christmas spirit than by taking time each night to explore the annual Familius Christmas Anthology. This year's anthology is filled with stories

  poems

  recipes

  and activities to make Christmas time enjoyable. This timeless collection is literally stuffed with feel-good content and activities that will bring your family together.

  The Familius Christmas Anthology: Just for Kids

  Worked with and edited stories by bestselling authors Dave Wolverton

  Brandon Sanderson

  and Dan Wells to produce the 30th anniversary edition of Leading Edge magazine.

  AdaptationStudies.org

  A website to discuss and promote the academic field of adaptation studies.

  Kristy

  Gilbert

  Looseleaf Editorial & Production

  Brigham Young University

  The Folklore Historian

  Weber State University

  AppTime

  Brigham Young University

  Brigham Young University

  Brigham Young University

  Brigham Young University

  General Dynamics Information Technology

  Provo

  Utah Area

  Taught Introduction to Print Publishing

  a course that covers foundational graphic design principles and how to implement them in printed projects using Adobe InDesign

  Illustrator

  and Photoshop.

  Adjunct Faculty for Office of Digital Humanities & Technology

  Brigham Young University

  Teach Introduction to Print Publishing

  a course that covers foundational graphic design principles and how to implement them in printed projects using Adobe InDesign

  Illustrator

  and Photoshop.

  Brigham Young University

  General Dynamics Information Technology

  Remote / telecommute

  Edited theses

  articles

  and conference proceedings from students and faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey

  California. (Edited according to APA

  Chicago

  and in-house style guides.)

  Associate Editor

  Technical

  Provo

  Utah Area

  Copyedited scholarly articles in Chicago Manual of Style; laid out and typeset the journal in InDesign.

  Managing Editor

  The Folklore Historian

  Provo

  Utah Area

  Ran the WordPress-based website AdaptationStudies.org under the direction of Dr. Dennis Cutchins; responsible for keeping HTML and CSS updated to the site's needs

  promoting the site

  and soliciting some content.

  Adaptation Studies Research Assistant

  Brigham Young University

  Provide editing services ranging from manuscript evaluation to final proofreading as well as production services (including typesetting

  page layout

  and ebook production). Clients include DC Comics

  New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson

  Wall Street Journal-bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg

  Brian McClellan

  various small presses & book packagers

  businesses

  independent authors

  and academic professionals.\n\nWork according to the following style guides depending on clients needs: Chicago Manual of Style

  APA

  MLA

  and AP.

  Looseleaf Editorial & Production

  Brigham Young University

  Provo

  Utah Area

  Graded assignments for ELang 430R

  Editing for Publication (the capstone course for the undergraduate editing minor) under the direction of Dr. Mel Thorne; researched material for existing and future courses in the editing minor; taught some class sessions.

  Editing Teaching Assistant

  Provo

  Utah Area

  Collaborated with an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional team to create a big data project analyzing fairy tales on television; coded instances of fairy tales on TV with Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) numbers and other identifying information; analyzed data reports for correlations

  trends

  and research questions; presented database and research using the database at the 2014 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting.

  Fairy-tale Studies Research Assistant

  Brigham Young University

  Taught a substantive editing course for the BYU editing curriculum; focused on book editing for both nonfiction and fiction; used The Chicago Manual of Style.

  Brigham Young University

  Adjunct Faculty

  Taught intermediate writing using a themed approach; emphasized strategies for reaching different audiences

  effective uses of evidence

  and distilling topics and arguments from large bodies of research.

  Weber State University

  AppTime

  Provo

  Utah

  Wrote external communications: product descriptions

  blog posts

  company emails

  newsletters

  etc. Edited copy produced by others.

  Creative Copywriter

  Editorial Freelancers Association