Colleen Barry

Colleen Barry

In her ten years as an editor, Colleen Barry has worked for community newspapers, startup websites, and for herself as a freelancer. As a one-woman copy desk, she now serves as the sole arbiter of house style for two trade magazines outside Boston, MA. She’s an expert in AP Style, but she has also dabbled in Chicago and MLA and has helped build house style guides for several of her employers. She tweets about grammar and style, to the amusement and edification of at least a few people, as @CopyCurmudgeon.

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