Katie Van Heest

@tweedediting.bsky.social

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Academic editor and PhD ▪️ Teaching book editing at Portland State University ▪️ Chicago and Claremont trained ▪️ she/her ▪️ same handle elsewhere https://www.tweedediting.com

An array of conversation hearts with academic and literary messages on them
An array of pastel conversation hearts with academic messages, like "Cite Me," "Ibid. Forever," "See Syllabus," and "I Blurb U."
Fortune from a fortune cookie that reads “You have a charming way with words. You should write a book!”
Academic valentine that reads “Sorry, no reviewers found. You’re without peer.”
An array of academic valentines
A donut chart representing various academic disciplines of manuscripts edited by Katie Van Heest of Tweed Editing
A minibook of The Chicago Manual of Style inside a lit holiday wreath
Direct from Tweed Editing’a Archetypewriter, choose your end-of-term persona
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An worn red book cover that reads Many Thanks by Tweed Editing”
Screencap of the opening lines of Helen DeWitt's novella The English Understand Wool, with the word "tweed" highlighted in orange.
Front and back photos of an editor wearing a book-themed dress and yellow velvet blazer altered to mimic the cover of The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition. She holds a copy of the book.
Slide on generational attitudes toward AI from Oxford University Press's Researchers and AI Survey Findings
Graphic of an orange book entitled The Joy of Booking, by Tweed Editing. A ribbon reads 2024 Edition.
Notification from the New York Times about the Presidential Fitness Test
Photograph of two smiling women in front of a university bulletin board
Fanned-out stack of envelopes containing tax documents from various US universities
Fashion editorial titled “academia” from the August 1990 Sassy magazine. Photo of a frazzled-looking woman in glasses sitting against lockers. A dictionary sits in her lap.
Array of academic valentines from Tweed Editing
Graphic reading "Coming Very Soon" and image of an envelope and four academic valentines from Tweed Editing
Graphic that reads "Now Booking" and stack of books icon.
A stack of reference books on grammar, language, and editing.
Handwritten sign on a counter that reads, “Please eat the plums that are in the fridge!! (They are in the Nancy’s yogurt container.) eat them!!” Next to it, a printout of William Carlos Williams’s poem “This Is Just to Say.”
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