Dear Writer,

Hello! I offer editing services for individual poems, stories, memoirs, blogs, etc. as well as short (chapbook, grant applications, etc.) and full-length manuscripts (poetry, fiction, scholarly, etc.).

To offer you some context, I am currently offering editorial commentary to poets on individual poems, chapbook- and full-length manuscripts. Recently, I edited a writing sample, artistic statement, and bio for a writer applying to graduate school and ushered a novelist through the writing and early draft phases of her first novel. 

I also have experience as an editor of a literary arts magazine. As an editor at the an online poetry magazine The Maynard (currently on hiatus), which I co-founded with Nicholas Hauck, I read 1000s of poems, and upon acquiring some for publication, offered line and developmental editorial commentary on all of the poems within each issue. I also created The Maynard‘s Views series of interviews and reviews.

Speaking of interviews, you are invited to read this short interview in which I focus on some of the nuts and bolts of sending your writing to editors of magazines for consideration and publication.

Through my editing services, I strive to assist your writing to express its creative and communicative intentions to the fullest extent all the while I am teaching you how to be a careful reader and editor of your own work. 

Do you have a writing project on which you would like to receive feedback? Contact me and let’s begin a supportive editorial conversation that supports you to continue yopur relationship with your writing. 

Author Testimonials:

Words from poets, novelists, and scholars with whom I have worked as their editor over the past 20 years.

I am indebted to poet mentor Jami Macarty for her expertise, her sure eye and ear…

—Caroline Wong, author of Primal Sketches (Signature Editions, 2021)

I feel really good and appreciate the way you edited my work. —Haylee R, poet 

Thank you for the work you’ve done in helping me learn about poetry… you’ve done exactly what I needed and with honesty and humour, so thank you. —Yolanda F, poet 

Thanks again for such a wonderful collaboration and encouragement during the writing of my novel.

—Anita August, PhD, writer of non/fiction 

Once again thank you very much. I went through all of your comments and I am very happy. This is the first time I received such constructive feedback. Everything was clear and I can see where I have to improve my writing. —Nicholas P, poet 
 
I can’t imagine having done this without your help… Thank you so much for that and for your wonderful words. —Henry Rappaport, author of Loose to the World (Rondsdale Press, 2014)
 

I have a friend, who would like your information.  I told her you’re a damn smart reader and what an excellent job you do in reading/editing/suggesting, and she would like your info.

—Cristina D. Ramirez, PhD, author of Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942

Jami is an insightful and incisive editor.  She took my manuscript and brought her astute eyes and ears to the words and the meaning beneath the words.  She asks bold and difficult questions, and opens up the space for you to bring your best work forward.  I am thankful for her expertise and thorough edit into making words shine off the page. 

—Celeste Snowber, PhD, author of Embodied Inquiry: Writing, Living and Being through the Body.