Natalie Nyquist
Editor
- Native Texan living near the Gulf | wife to an accountant | mom to a ten year old
- Instructor and course developer for UC Berkeley Extension’s Professional Sequence in Editing
- Freelance editor for HarperCollins Publishers
- First degree black belt in Songham Taekwondo
Teaching & speaking
Instructor, UC Berkeley Extension
- Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage for Editors
- Editorial Workshop I: Introduction to Copyediting
- Editorial Workshop II: Intermediate Copyediting
- Editorial Workshop III: Advanced Editorial Workshop
Speaking Experience
- ACES National Conference
- EFA (Editorial Freelancers Association) Chicago and Houston chapters
- Maranatha Christian Writers Conference
- PENCON (Proofreaders and Editors Network)
- University of Chicago’s Graham School webinar panels
- Write-to-Publish Conference
PEN Institute
- Freelancing for Publishers webinar series
- Chicago Manual of Style online course
- Style manuals for book publishing webinar
software & style Guides
- Adobe Spark
- Acrobat DC & Acrobat Reader DC
- Asana
- Blackboard
- Canva
- Canvas
- Egnyte
- Google Suite
- InDesign CC 2020
- Microsoft Office Suite 365: Excel, PowerPoint, Word
- PDF-XChange Editor
- Photoshop CC 2020
- Slack
- Trello
- WordPress.com and WordPress.org
- Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed.
- Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate 11th and Unabridged
- Christian Writers Manual of Style 4th ed.
- Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Handbook of Style 2nd ed.
- Turabian (Chicago-style)
Education
Introduction to Typography | California School of the Arts
Learning to Teach Online | University of New South Wales
Editing Certificate | University of Chicago Graham School
- Beginning Manuscript Editing
- Intermediate Manuscript Editing
- Advanced Manuscript Editing
- Editing Electronically
- Grammar for Professionals
B.S., Biblical Studies | Moody Bible Institute
- Introduction to Mass Communications
- English Composition I and II
Craftsman (fiction; 1 year program) | Christian Writers Guild
Apprenticeship (2 year program) | Christian Writers Guild
Subject-MAtter Expertise
Ancient Near East
Archaeology
Anthropology
Biblical Studies
Dance: Ballet & Ballroom
Family Law & Legal Studies
General Medicine
Martial Arts: Taekwondo
Psychiatry
Psychology
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder & Trauma Recovery
Languages (some experience/familiar, but not fluent):
- American Sign Language
- Chinese
- French
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Japanese
- Latin
- Spanish