Editorial Freelancers Association
Member Profile
Hollianna Bryan (she/her)
Use Words Editorial
I’m a development editor and writing coach primarily for the interdisciplinary humanities and interpretive social sciences, helping scholars with books, articles, talks, proposals, and other professional materials. I want to create honest, empathetic, generative, and productive editing relationships that make it possible for you to take the risks you need to do the work you want, at its very best.
With one-off scholarly projects as well as long-term, ongoing editing and development relationships with authors across many texts and forms of writing, I can help you finish a book or build your projects from the very start. I have been involved with books published by trade and academic presses, such as Disney-Hyperion, ABC-CLIO, Perseus, Rutgers University Press, Indiana University Press, UNC Press, University of California Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, and Duke University Press, as well as articles for scholarly journals, public online forums, and other professionalization materials.
I will give you honest, substantive, constructive feedback and will provide tools, resources, and technical help along the way. Through manuscript edits, revision support, coaching meetings, and responsive communication, I can be your dialogic partner across the writing and publishing process — and your advocate and support. You will create publishable material that speaks directly and clearly from you to the readers you want.
Above all, I am your advocate for what you want to do, in the best way possible, and in a way that works for you.
Durham, NC
US
Business phone: 919-308-6838
Email: holliannabryan@gmail.com
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Years in the field: 20
Years freelancing: 13
Hollianna Bryan (she/her)
I’m a development editor and writing coach primarily for the interdisciplinary humanities and interpretive social sciences, helping scholars with books, articles, talks, proposals, and other professional materials. I want to create honest, empathetic, generative, and productive editing relationships that make it possible for you to take the risks you need to do the work you want, at its very best.
With one-off scholarly projects as well as long-term, ongoing editing and development relationships with authors across many texts and forms of writing, I can help you finish a book or build your projects from the very start. I have been involved with books published by trade and academic presses, such as Disney-Hyperion, ABC-CLIO, Perseus, Rutgers University Press, Indiana University Press, UNC Press, University of California Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, and Duke University Press, as well as articles for scholarly journals, public online forums, and other professionalization materials.
I will give you honest, substantive, constructive feedback and will provide tools, resources, and technical help along the way. Through manuscript edits, revision support, coaching meetings, and responsive communication, I can be your dialogic partner across the writing and publishing process — and your advocate and support. You will create publishable material that speaks directly and clearly from you to the readers you want.
Above all, I am your advocate for what you want to do, in the best way possible, and in a way that works for you.
