Work with Stina

My work centers around supporting writers to achieve their vision and specific goals for their work.

manuscript review

For those who may need …

  • Revisions, editing, and finishing book-length projects, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry.

  • Supporting a PhD candidate through writing and defending your dissertation (not available at all times, check current availability).

  • Checking in with you at 2:31 am when obsessed with your 7th revision of the concluding poem of your chapbook.

writing coach

A writing coach’s job description changes with every client, but may include:

  • Discussing revisions to individual works or smaller collections of work.

  • Connecting you to educational and professional resources and support.

  • Leading you through generative and craft-related activities, with some created just for you to develop and refine your voice or project.

  • Conducting research for your project.

  • Ask if you’re resting and hydrating when deadlines approach.

  • Encourage you to both honor and “do rich violence to your work.”

the “business” of writing

For those who need support with …

  • Submitting to presses, contests, award programs, and retreats

  • Polishing that 50-page pitch you’re sending an agent or press