Sara Wood

rowing up, I watched my father turn his friend’s field interviews and notes into a book. I found his work fascinating. I inherited his passion for the meticulous. I enjoy making sure all the jots and tittles are in the right places and all the quotes and references are perfect. Fine tuning sentences down to the bare essentials gives me a distinct sense of accomplishment. 

 

My first job out of college was for the managing editor of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. The editor of that publication was a doctor at Vanderbilt, so I got to work and learn at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After three years, my first child was born and I turned my attention to freelance work that I could do from home.

 

At that point in 2001, I began working independently with authors. The variety of works that I have been able to read through my editing has brought me great joy. I am experienced in line editing and copy editing and am comfortable with technical and non-technical writing. I have edited journal articles, put together newsletters, and edited books on various topics from poetry compilations to novels to mathematical theory, with many Bible studies in between.

 

When I am not editing books and articles at home, I enjoy other introverted pleasures: I love to hike alone in the woods and take photos of birds and flowers. I work part-time at a plant store on my town's Main Street and am a deaconess at my church, where I volunteer and work with the benevolence committee. Of course, my main joy in life is my family. My husband and I will celebrate 25 years of marriage this spring. We have two sons, aged 18 and 21.