An editor with three decades of experience, Caroline Schweiter balances a bluestocking’s sensibility with a journalist’s cultural awareness. Her services include proofreading, light and heavy copyediting, and substantive editing for book authors as well as for-profit and nonprofit clients. She specializes in editing journalism, persuasive writing, general nonfiction, and nontechnical academic prose.
Schweiter enjoys collaborating with authors of all skill levels and is committed to enhancing their voices. Her queries are designed to engage authors in dialogue, and she prides herself on preserving their turns of phrase. She is an old-school grammarian, adhering to the rules her English teachers taught (the ones that matter, not the no-splitting-infinitives kind); at the same time, she is forward-thinking in outlook and idiom. For many years she worked at the revered alternative weekly Washington City Paper, where she edited everything from hard news to serious arts criticism and was responsible for perfecting 50,000 words a week.
In addition to an AB, magna cum laude, from Amherst College, Schweiter holds a certificate from the Radcliffe Publishing Course.