

Editing and Proofreading Services
I enjoy providing substantial edits and critiques of works in progress by writers of all levels and genres, and I can quickly copyedit or proofread shorter works, from resumés and cover letters to book proposals and corporate reports.
Client list
I have worked as an editor and/or proofreader for these and other companies and publications:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Boston Phoenix
- Brown Alumni Magazine
- Entertainment Weekly
- Food + Wine
- Joele Frank
- Lonely Planet
- Metropolitan Books
- Michelin Travel Publications
- Migration Policy Institute
- Pratt Institute
- Rough Guides
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Scholastic Inc.
- Scientific American
- Skadden, Arps
- South End Press
- Travel & Leisure
- University of California Press
- World Bank
“When I need a great editor I always call on Shea Dean. She not only has the discerning eye of an expert copy editor, but time and again she lends her sharp intellect to the project, analyzing a piece of writing from its deep structure, pointing out strengths, problems, and solutions. Shea, a talented writer herself, always makes my writing better.”
—J. Richard Gentry, PhD, author of Raising Confident Readers
“Vague as all definitions are, a good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.”
– VIRGINIA WOOLF