Editor Bios
Our editors have over seventy years of combined editing experience and include many PhD’s and successful novelists. Riverside Editors has edited award-winning fiction and satisfied hundreds of literary and academic clients from wide range of backgrounds. Many of our clients go on to get published by traditional publishers. Riverside Editors strives to provide the highest quality guidance for the realization of our clients’ projects. With a focus on fiction and scholarly writing, we edit a variety of texts including novels, short fiction, dissertations and research proposals. Riverside also edits news articles, and a variety of commercial publications. Meet some of our editors:
Lori Stone Handelman, PhD, is a professional editor who has worked in the publishing industry for six years on psychology and related titles. In her role as Senior Acquisitions Editor for Oxford University Press, she gained deep experience in evaluation and development of both manuscripts and proposals, book editing, manuscript and proposal editing, and writing. Lori has won numerous fellowships and awards including a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship. She brings all her experience to her editing. Lori takes great pride in the work she does with authors, and would be happy to help you realize your manuscript.
Chris Carlsson is the author of Nowtopia, and After the Deluge, and has edited five collections, most recently Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78, which won a Gold Medal in the 81st Annual California Book Awards for “Contribution to Publishing”. He brings his broad experience to his editing. San Francisco Weekly named Chris Best S.F. Historian, in May 2009. In October 1991, his ‘Brazilian Dreams: Visiting Points of Resistance’ won Best Documentary at the Humboldt State University Film & Video Festival. He has also won the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award in Community Journalism, and was twice a finalist in the Utne Reader Alternative Press Awards. Chris won the San Francisco Bay Guardian “LOCAL HERO” AWARD, and the AWARD OF MERIT from the San Francisco Historical Society.
Sarah Cypher is a book editor and author whose writing has appeared in Salon.com, The Oregonian, Fodor’s, The Crab Orchard Review, and various anthologies. She won a University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop scholarship allowing her to attend Trinity College in Dublin. Sarah brings ten years of experience editing with a specialty in multicultural fiction about the Middle East. She also has a passion for speculative and magical realist fiction, dystopias, and adult writing. Sarah graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Creative Writing, from Carnegie Mellon University where she served as Assistant Editor for the CMU Press. Her book reviews appear regularly in The Oregonian.
Dr. Bear holds a Ph.D. in Education, with a specialty in Counseling Psychology, from the University of Southern California. With over 25 years of research, writing, and editing experience, Dr. Bear is a consultant to authors and edits books in education and psychology. In addition, Dr. Bear has taught courses in research methodology for Phillips Graduate Institute in Los Angeles, as well as technical writing and business writing for Chapman University in Orange, California, and is a Research Specialist in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine.
Dominick Montalto is a proofreader for has edited and proofread for McGraw-Hill Higher Education and St. Martin’s Custom Publishing. He has extensive experience editing and proofreading novels and college-provided custom content for writing and reference handbooks; preparing manuscripts of college readers and student-essay texts for production; and adding and developing custom front matter and back matter for university custom handbooks and manuscripts. Dominick has Certificates in Editing and in Digital Publishing from NYU; a Master of Arts in English Literature from Queens College; and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University.
Brett Kraabel, PhD is a scientific editor with 15 years of experience editing scientific articles often for peer-reviewed journals. He is a writer and editor for CNRS, the American Physical Society, Addison-Wesley, and has contributed content to university physics textbooks. He is recognized by the French Ministry of Research and Technology as an expert in physics. Brett’s Applied Optics experience includes assembling ultrafast amplified laser systems and associated nonlinear optical systems. He is also versed in Information Technology and has created scientific editing software (C++, Java, Python) for TeX.
Lauren P. Baker, PhD, ELS has been providing medical and science editing services since 1997. She is an Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS), and has earned a Core Certificate in Pharmaceutical Writing from the American Medical Writers Association. She has a PhD, Neurobiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a member of the American Medical Writers Association. Her areas of expertise are Clinical Studies, Basic Research, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Anatomy, and Developmental Biology.
Elyce Berrigan-Dunlop is a professional editor with more than nine years of experience working in both print and online publications. Her credits include projects for McGraw-Hill, Ulysses Press, Pavane Publishing, and Callisto Media. She is also a features writer with articles appearing in Oakland Magazine, Diablo Magazine, and The Children’s Advocate. Her background includes manuscripts in nearly every genre, from historical texts and academic works to novels and cookbooks. Elyce holds a degree in English Literature with a minor in Journalism and has completed numerous editorial courses at Editcetera and UC Berkeley.