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Professional Bio

Sydney is an editor and writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

My creative journey started in childhood with a habit of pulling apart restaurant menus for typos. My friends and family enabled this habit, and, in grade school, I leaned into this role as “the friend who reads everyone’s book reports.”

I attended the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) for undergrad, where I studied English Literature & Composition, Creative Writing, and Anthropology. I participated in the National Student Exchange program at UNI and studied at William Paterson University and Stony Brook University, New York. I later attended Meredith College for Pre-Health. I earned my Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University St. Thomas, Minnesota.

While at UNI, I interned at the North American Review, wrote for the Northern Iowan, wrote and workshopped a chapbook of micro-fiction exploring adolescence and identity development, & received a department award for my work. The North American Review published a piece of my micro-fiction titled “Peas” from my chapbook.

Following my graduation from UNI, I worked at Oxford University Press (OUP) on the journals team for several years before embarking on full-time freelance editing and writing.

I am trained in traditional literary criticism, new criticism, and Rogerian psychotherapy. Language is a powerful tool beyond being straightforward communication: it facilitates human development, shapes one’s self-concept, & informs one’s worldview. I embrace multidisciplinary approaches to writing, connection, and creativity in my work.