Editorial Services

Years in the field: 15
Years freelancing: 10

Years in the field: 4
Years freelancing: 4

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nonprofit organizations

The AP Stylebook

Kathryn (Casey) Decker

Hannah Brantley is the Head Editor for Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and the Director of their Food & Wine Program. Previously, she served as Assistant Editor for the food studies journal, Food, Culture & Society. She holds a diploma from Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts, a BA in Philosophy from the University of Missouri, and an MA in Gastronomy from Boston University. Her academic interests center around literary theory, especially applying it to food writing in the twentieth century. Before working in non-profit culinary education and editing she was a food stylist, chocolatier, baker, and cheesemonger.

I specialize in copy editing of academic publications and nonfiction in the general area of the humanities and social sciences. I am comfortable with the Chicago Manual of Style and the other main relevant styles (e.g., APA, MLA).

I’m a professional with a wide range of experience over the last 20 years. I have:

“Easy reading is damn hard writing!” As a writer, you can probably relate to these words by novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. Excellent writing doesn’t just happen. It takes many drafts to hone your ideas and develop your story. With 35 years of experience as a full-time, professional editor, I can help. My services include manuscript analyses, developmental editing, and ghostwriting.