
CONTINUING EDUCATION
In addition to my formal education, I regularly participate in continuing education to update my professional skills. Here are some of the conferences, classes, and webinars I've participated in, as well as the books and podcasts that help me continue to grow as a professional.
CONFERENCES, CLASSES & WEBINARS

Lynwood, WA Copy Editing | Passive Income | Working with Indie Authors | Freelancing | Career Visions

Portland, OR Publishing Across Generations | Metadata | Reader Engagement | Book Festivals | Publishers & Libraries

Seattle, WA Literary Editing | Voice in YA | Folk & Fairy Tales | Mentorship & Non-Hierarchical Structures | Neurodivergence | 21st Century Horror Novel | Unconventional Stories | Seattle's Literary Ecosystem | YA Romance | Adapting Books to Film or TV | The Surreal in Contemporary Fiction

Online Balancing Life & Creative Work | Finding Your Niche | Synopsis Writing | Hyperfocus | Medical Plots | Accessibility

The Next Page Conference Kickstarter Online Publishing & Tech | Radical Representation & Inclusion | Economic Sustainability | Cultivating Community

Kenmore, WA Macros | Retaining the Narrator's Voice | Working with Independent Authors | Inclusive Editing

Online Working with Self-Publishing Authors | Being a Multipotentialite Editor | Story Mapping | Editing for Bias | Government Editing Work | Social Media | Hedging Numbers| Disability Representation

Online Historical Fiction | Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction | Writing for the Web | Ask an Agent | #PublishingPaidMe | Virtual Events | Writing Nature | Place in Southern Fiction | Responding to Contemporary Issues in Fiction | Publishing Futures | Virtues & Vices of Elevated Prose | Compelling Plots | Microblogs & Influence of Tumblr | Animals in Children's Books | Neurodivergence in Literature | Appropriation | Keynote with Joy Harjo

Online Unconscious Bias | Copywriting | Line Editing | Inbound Marketing | Microaggressions in Editing | Editing Graphic Novels | Fantasy Worldbuilding | ChatGPT for Editors | Freelancing

Portland Book Marketing | Genre Fiction as Political Resistance | Art of Revising | Editing the Patriarchy | Book Reviews | Literary Events | Podcasting | Alternative Pathways to Publishing | Diverse Narrators | Literary Startups | Support for POCs in Publishing | Keynote with Tayari Jones

Online Invention of the Modern American Dictionary | Grammar Arcana | Developing an Editorial Process

Online History of the Gothic Romance Genre | Golden Age of Illustration in Children's Books

Online History of Fantasy Literature | Fantasy Creatures

2016-2023 Curtis Sittenfeld | Angela Sterritt with Sasha LaPointe | Taylor Jenkins Reid with Cheryl Strayed | YA Horror with Ben Clanton & Jonathan Hill | Royal Romance with Casey McQuiston & Jasmine Guillory | Karen Russel, Ross Gay & Michael Dickman | Rainbow Rowell | Tom Hanks | Abbi Jacobson with Lindy West | Elizabeth Acevedo, Lauren Groff & Tommy Orange | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Omar El-Akkad & Lidia Yuknavitch | Rivka Galchen | Carrie Brownstein

Seattle, WA How to Be an Ally On and Off the Page | Ask an Agent

Online Intro to Comics with Amy Chu

Seattle & Online Conscious Language | Helping Clients Get Published | Negotiating & Setting Rates

Katee Robert | Paul Harding | Amaranth Borsuk | Jo Segura | Rebecca Ross

GWU Ethics in Publishing Conference Online Stewardship of Authors & Ideas | Inclusive Language | Anti-Racism

Online

Online Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of Storytelling | N. K. Jemison Teaches Science Fiction & Fantasy

Seattle, WA

AIGA Online

Brown University x EdX Online Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans

General Assembly Seattle, WA User Experience | Digital Marketing | Data Science

Carmen Maria Machado | Ijeoma Oluo | Jericho Brown | Ruth Ozeki

Seattle, WA Circle Theory Workshop | Working from Home


Women in UX Conference Seattle, WA
BOOKS & PODCASTS
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