Michelle Nordon has worked in publishing since 1993, including as senior editor at the University of California Press, where she worked on book manuscripts in fields such as film, art history, and philosophy; and as managing editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, an international feminist studies journal (published by the University of Chicago Press) that recently celebrated its thirtieth anniversary.

As a freelancer, she has edited everything from biographies and business publications to fiction and memoirs. She offers proofreading, copyediting, developmental editing, and manuscript evaluation, for works literary, popular, or academic.

Recent work includes Photography as Fiction, The Tree in Photographs, and Still Life in Photography, all published by the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Paths to Discovery: Autobiographies from Chicanas with Careers in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering, an edited collection that won second place in the category of Biography (English) at the 2009 International Latino Book Awards.

Michelle has a bachelor’s degree in literature and a master of fine arts in literary nonfiction writing, and has published short memoirs in various anthologies, literary journals, and popular magazines.