In 2022, I started up a University Press and ran it for a year. This exciting adventure included vetting submissions, soliciting projects, editing manuscripts, nurturing writers, providing developmental readings, proofreading copy, and directing authors through the process from draft to done. I have also worked as a writing consultant in several university and college writing centers; as a teacher of academic, creative, and nonfiction writing at all levels from elementary school through master’s degrees.

You can hire me for any stage of your writing project. I can edit your work substantively, proofread it mildly, guide you through elements of your academic writing, train you in the rigors of creative genres, brainstorm new directions in your nonfiction, consult with you on stylistic or grammatical topics, or help you perfect your MLA citations.

Here are the books I am currently editing or have edited in the past.

Gardeners of the Galaxies

Gardeners of the Galaxies: How Other Worlds Teach Us to Care for This One. Edited collection, with Dr. Brenton Dickieson. Authors are currently drafting their chapters; check back for periodic updates.

The Inklings and King Arthur

Will King Arthur ever return to England? He already has. In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature. Although studies of the “Oxford Inklings” abound, astonishingly enough, none has yet examined their great body of Arthurian work. Yet each of these major writers tackled serious and relevant questions about government, gender, violence, imperialism, secularism, and spirituality through their stories of the Quest for the Holy Grail. This rigorous and sophisticated volume studies these topics for the first time.

Taliessin through Logres

This is a new edition of Charles Williams’s two mature volumes of Arthurian verse: Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars, released in 2016 by Apocryphile Press. Previously, this poetry was out of print and difficult to obtain. This inexpensive volume contains a new introduction that I wrote for Taliessin, guiding the reader through the delights and challenges of these obscure but rewarding poems, giving instructions for first readings and rereadings, and noting important themes. Through the voice of Taliessin, King Arthur’s poet, and other famous Arthurian characters, these timeless poems explore sacramental objects, the Two Ways of theology, the Image of the City, CW’s distinctive anatomical geography, and the revelatory and salvific power of poetry. 

The Chapel of the Thorn

The Chapel of the Thorn is now available on Amazon. This is an early play by Charles Williams (written in 1912 and published for the first time in 2014 by Apocryphile Press), edited and introduced by Sørina Higgins, with a preface by Grevel Lindop (Charles Williams’ official biographer, author of Charles Williams: The Third Inkling (OUP 2015), and an essay by David Llewellyn Dodds (editor of the Charles Williams volume in Boydell & Brewer’s Arthurian Poets series). The Chapel of the Thorn is a two-act verse drama in which Christians and pagans contend for control of the Crown of Thorns. Its themes of spiritual tension, sacred vs. secular power, and religious war are as powerful now as they were when Williams wrote this play just over one hundred years ago.

The Soul of Wit

Here is a collection of flash fiction and short-form poetry I edited for Signum University’s “Almost an Inkling” Creative Writing Contest in 2016. The Soul of Wit is a rich and varied body of short works of literature from tweet-length pieces to 1,000-word myths that create whole secondary worlds: immersive, captivating, speculative, funny, heartbreaking, breathtaking, and transcendent. Each is, in its own small-sized way, a work of compelling subcreation: the art of making a new secondary world out of pre-existing real-world and legendary elements in combination with astonishing imaginative creations. Perhaps Tolkien and Lewis would be proud.