Hi, I’m Sloan (or perhaps you know me as Kate, if we’ve met through my family, or we’ve known each other a long time. Writers containing multitudes, and all that. 😉 ) Welcome to my world!

🤓 ✏️ I accidentally got my first taste of editing at age 9. ✏️ 🤓

My parents were both writers, and my mother taught writing and edited a literary magazine. I still remember catching my first typo when I pulled a chair up to the kitchen table to ask my mom when dinner would be ready.

I was mesmerized by the messy pile of manuscripts and wanted to sit there with her and read them all.

(Fast-forward 3-plus decades and 2 writing degrees, and it’s no surprise that I’m still supporting writers in getting their best work into the world.)

I hold a BA in Literary Studies and Creative Writing from Beloit College, and an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University. At Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, I served two years as an editor for Bombay Gin Literary Journal, fell in love with translation, and studied how the contemplative arts can support a writing practice… despite being a reluctant meditator!

I’ve spent over 10 years as a grant writer in higher education and nonprofit sector roles, which nurtured my technical & persuasive writing skill (as demonstrated by several 6- and 7-figure grants I secured for my clients & the organizations I worked for).

My grant writing experience has also grown my capacity to edit and coach others across genre, format, and academic discipline, as I shepherded collaborative, complex, interdisciplinary writing projects from concept meeting to project submission.

In addition to my coaching and editing, I’m also a writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, translation (and the occasional poem — poetry used to be my primary form, but during grad school I found my affinity for longer-form work.)

I’m also a mom, a language-learner (mostly Italian, though I’ve dabbled a bit with Norwegian, French, and Greek). A translator, a former actor, an estranged puppeteer & puppet-builder, and a summer-camp-kid-at-heart. For 10 years I’ve juggled all that with the exhaustion of being primary breadwinner for my family.

For the past 20 years, I’ve centered my work around projects that celebrate and prioritize community, art, and stories told well, across geographic boundary or medium. This year, I’m finding more ways to share stories with others. I hope you’ll join in!

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