Editorial Freelancers Association
Member Profile
Denise Larrabee
I am a versatile and highly experienced editor and writer with expertise in nonprofit publications and books for trade publishers. I also have experience editing literary and academic anthologies and journals. I have an excellent reputation in the development, production, editing, and proofreading of print and electronic publications, online content, newsletters, brochures, reports, works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more. I hold a Master of Arts in American Studies with a concentration in American women’s history and literature from Boston College and have published and worked in this field. I served on the Board of Governors for the Editorial Freelancers Association from 2018 to 2022, and currently edit the What’s New ebulletin.
For nonprofits I develop, write, and edit printed publications and online content, while serving as a managing editor, production editor, copyeditor, and proofreader as needed. Publications I produce include newsletters, annual reports, handbooks, magazines, and brochures. Online content includes websites, blogs, and social media posts. For one of my clients, Friends of the Wissahickon (FOW), I have served for the past twelve years as editor and writer. FOW is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the 1,800-acre Wissahickon Valley Park in Philadelphia. The publications I have produced for FOW have contributed to have resulted in the doubling of FOW membership in three years, as well as increases in event attendance, volunteer participation, and online readership.
I began working for trade publishers in 2014. I copyedit and proofread printed books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for adults, young adults, and children. My clients include Catapult, Cambridge University Press, the Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Melville House, and Penguin Random House. Some of the imprints I have worked for are Berkley; Henry Holt and Co.; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Poppy; Roaring Brook Press; St. Martin’s Press, and Square Fish.
As an academic and literary editor, I have edited collections of historical essays, academic journals, and anthologies of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Currently, I work as a freelance copy editor for Cambridge University Press. Books include Meridian Bound: Fiction, Essays, Poetry and More (Pella Publishing House); Hen’s Teeth (Meridian Writers Collective); and The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women’s Political Culture in Antebellum America (Cornel University Press). I was also an assistant editor for American Writing: A Magazine for six years and a copy editor and proofreader for Taylor & Francis Group, a publisher of academic journals.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-larrabee/
Years in the field: 24
Years freelancing: 24
Denise Larrabee
Member at Large
I am a versatile and highly experienced editor and writer with expertise in nonprofit publications and books for trade publishers. I also have experience editing literary and academic anthologies and journals. I have an excellent reputation in the development, production, editing, and proofreading of print and electronic publications, online content, newsletters, brochures, reports, works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more. I hold a Master of Arts in American Studies with a concentration in American women’s history and literature from Boston College and have published and worked in this field. I served on the Board of Governors for the Editorial Freelancers Association from 2018 to 2022, and currently edit the What’s New ebulletin.
For nonprofits I develop, write, and edit printed publications and online content, while serving as a managing editor, production editor, copyeditor, and proofreader as needed. Publications I produce include newsletters, annual reports, handbooks, magazines, and brochures. Online content includes websites, blogs, and social media posts. For one of my clients, Friends of the Wissahickon (FOW), I have served for the past twelve years as editor and writer. FOW is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the 1,800-acre Wissahickon Valley Park in Philadelphia. The publications I have produced for FOW have contributed to have resulted in the doubling of FOW membership in three years, as well as increases in event attendance, volunteer participation, and online readership.
I began working for trade publishers in 2014. I copyedit and proofread printed books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for adults, young adults, and children. My clients include Catapult, Cambridge University Press, the Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Melville House, and Penguin Random House. Some of the imprints I have worked for are Berkley; Henry Holt and Co.; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Poppy; Roaring Brook Press; St. Martin’s Press, and Square Fish.
As an academic and literary editor, I have edited collections of historical essays, academic journals, and anthologies of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Currently, I work as a freelance copy editor for Cambridge University Press. Books include Meridian Bound: Fiction, Essays, Poetry and More (Pella Publishing House); Hen’s Teeth (Meridian Writers Collective); and The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women’s Political Culture in Antebellum America (Cornel University Press). I was also an assistant editor for American Writing: A Magazine for six years and a copy editor and proofreader for Taylor & Francis Group, a publisher of academic journals.
