Contributors to Copyediting newsletter and members of the editorial advisory board

Wendalyn Nichols is the editor of Copyediting. She was a teacher of remedial English, ESL, and composition for twelve years before entering publishing. She began as a freelance researcher, writer, and editor, then became a lexicographer and editor with the Longman Group. For four years she was the editorial director of Random House Reference and Information Publishing.

Wendalyn has been interviewed about language on The Today Show, CNN, The Joy of Lex (The Discovery Channel), and dozens of radio programs, including Public Radio International's The Next Big Thing and NPR's Talk of the Nation. She was a regular contributor to The Mavens' Word of the Day Web site, answering questions about word origins and usage. In her career she has edited a variety of texts, including novels, nonfiction works, scholarly articles, textbooks, dictionaries, children's books, sales materials, corporate communications—and of course, newsletter articles. She lives in New York, New York with her husband and young daughter. Follow her on Twitter @WendalynNichols and @Copyediting.

Grant Barrett is a contributing editor for Copyediting. He has practiced lexicography with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Collins. He is a vice president of the American Dialect Society, a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for its academic journal American Speech, and a member of its New Words Committee.

Grant is also widely known as cohost of the nationwide language-related public radio show A Way with Words and for his annual “words of the year” pieces in The New York Times. His original research focuses on slang, jargon, and new words, and is showcased in his online Double-Tongued Dictionary. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife—a linguist as well—and their young son. Follow him on Twitter @GrantBarrett.

Patricia Godfrey, a copyeditor for Copyediting, is a freelance copyeditor, editor, and writer doing business as P and Q Editorial Services. She is the author of Grammatical Gleanings, a compilation of essays on grammar, syntax, and usage published by the Editorial Freelancers Association.

Patricia has more than 30 years of experience in book and periodical publishing, having copyedited books for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Reader's Digest General Books, Columbia University Press and other publishers. She lives in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.

Norm Goldstein is a columnist for Copyediting. The editor emeritus of The Associated Press Stylebook, Norm worked for the Associated Press as a reporter, editor, and author for more than 40 years.

Besides editing the Stylebook, Norm directed the AP's Special Projects division and was supervising editor of the news service's Special Features department. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Andrew is a copyeditor for Copyediting. He finagled an internship with the newsletter in 2002 (when it was still called Copy Editor) and refuses to relinquish it. He has worked as an expert on marine mammal care for over 28 years; since 1998, he has managed the Sea Otter Research and Conservation program at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Andrew earned a Specialized Certificate in Copyediting from UC San Diego Extension in 2005 and serves on the editorial advisory board of Soundings, the magazine of the International Marine Animal Trainers Association. He lives in Pacific Grove, CA, with his wife, Elin, and his kids, Kip and Esmé.

Charles M. Levine is a contributing editor for Copyediting. He has over three decades of professional experience as an editor and publisher, especially in the areas of general reference, business, and science, including executive positions at John Wiley, Simon & Schuster, and Random House. During the 2003–2007 academic years, he taught editing in the publishing studies program at Hofstra University.

Charles regularly consults for Dictionary.com and KDictionaries.com. He co-authored Meshuggenary: Celebrating the World of Yiddish (Simon & Schuster, 2002), which lives on as an e-book (Kindle, Sony, etc.). He has an MA in the history and philosophy of science from Indiana University. He lives in Queens, New York. Follow his intermittent tweets on Twitter @Word_Dude. [Photo: Charmaine Delmatier]

Linda Lowenthal is a contributing editor for Copyediting and is the copy chief at Technology Review (America's oldest technology magazine, published by MIT since 1899).

Previously she was a copyeditor at The Atlantic Monthly, before which she supervised copyediting at The Boston Phoenix, where she was in no way responsible for the personal ads. She lives in Boston, in the shadow of Fenway Park.

Paul Martin is a columnist for Copyediting and a member of Copyediting's editorial advisory board. He is the editor of The Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Usage (aka the WSJ stylebook) and editor of Style & Substance, the Journal's bulletin on copyediting and style matters.

A 42-year veteran and former assistant managing editor at the Journal, Paul received the Elliott V. Bell Award of the New York Financial Writers Association in 2000 for his “significant, long-term contribution to the profession of financial journalism.” He lives in Staten Island, New York.

Erin McKean is a contributing editor for Copyediting. Formerly the editor in chief of American dictionaries for Oxford University Press, she is now the CEO of Wordnik, and is also the editor of Verbatim: The Language Quarterly. NPR’s Neil Conan calls her “America's Lexicographical Sweetheart,” and MSNBC.com calls her “the queen and rock star among lexicographers.” She is the author of Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, and That’s Amore (also about words—do we detect a theme here?).

Erin lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and young son. She rants about dresses on her blog A Dress A Day and about dictionaries at Dictionary Evangelist, and is actually really bad at Scrabble. She likes to sew and rollerskate, but not at the same time. She also has a nifty collection of funky eyeglasses. Follow her on Twitter @emckean.

Marilyn Schwartz is a member of Copyediting's editorial advisory board. She has been Managing Editor of the University of California Press since 1983. She entered publishing quite by accident: six months after receiving a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis, in 1976, she accepted an internship at UC Press that serendipitously became a career. She now heads a department of 16 full- and part-time project editors and support staff, who together are responsible for the editorial production of approximately 180 new book titles annually, ranging from highly specialized scholarship to high-profile general interest books.

For over twenty years she has taught copyediting courses in the University of California Extension's Program in Publishing. From 1987 to 1993 she headed the Task Force on Bias-Free Language for the Association of American University Presses, and she is the author of Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995). She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Martha has been a member of Copyediting's editorial advisory board since the newsletter was founded.

After brief stints at Publishers Weekly and the Harvard University Press, she joined The Atlantic Monthly, where she was the chief copyeditor for more than thirty years. She is now a manuscript editor at Harvard Business Review.

Carl is a member of Copyediting’s editorial advisory board. He has taught journalism at the University of Maryland since 1983. He is senior contributing editor of American Journalism Review and the author of Writing as Craft and Magic and of Editing for Today's Newsroom, now in its second edition.

Stepp is a writing and editing consultant who has coached at some three dozen news organizations. He was a reporter and editor for 12 years with the St. Petersburg Times, Charlotte Observer, and USA Today.

Sage Stossel provides the "Inside Joke" cartoon for Copyediting. She is the creator of the political-cartoon feature "Sage, Ink," which since 1996 has appeared regularly on The Atlantic Monthly's Web site.

Sage is now the executive editor of The Atlantic Online. Her cartoons, which have been highlighted by the Go Network and Google as among the best on the Web, are reprinted in Editorial Humor, and some have appeared in The Palm Beach Post and other publications. For more about Sage, read The Atlantic's bio page.

Copyediting editor emeritus Barbara Wallraff is a member of Copyediting's editorial advisory board. She is the author of In Your Own Words and the nationally best-selling book Word Court. She is also a senior editor of The Atlantic Monthly, for which she writes the "Word Court" and "Word Fugitives" columns, and a syndicated columnist for King Features Syndicates.

Barbara has served as a consultant to publishers, written dictionary usage notes, and taught manuscript editing as a graduate-level seminar. For the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, National Public Radio's Morning Edition commissioned her to copyedit the Constitution. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Bill Walsh is a member of Copyediting's editorial advisory board. He has been a newspaper journalist for more than two decades and is now the chief copy editor for national news at The Washington Post. He is the author of two books on usage and style, Lapsing Into a Comma (2000) and The Elephants of Style (2004), and has run The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors on the World Wide Web since 1995.

A 1984 graduate of the University of Arizona journalism program, Walsh began his career as a reporter at The Phoenix Gazette and has held a variety of copyediting and design positions at the Gazette, The Washington Times, and the Post. He is a regular speaker at American Copy Editors Society conferences. Bill defends the spelling "copy editor" with passion, so we daren't defy that in this bio. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two cats, Gordie and Guga. Follow him on Twitter @TheSlot.