Speaker for Sept. 20 Meeting

Alice Rowan, from RowanTree Editorial & Production Services, will be speaking on Editing as Writing, Writing as Editing at our Sept. 20th meeting.

Alice S. Morrow Rowan has twenty years of experience as a production and copy editor, primarily of nonfiction. She worked in-house for Jossey-Bass, a division of John Wiley & Sons, on and off for about ten years, and has operated her own freelance business since 1994. She has been working at home in Lititz since June 2006.

Alice is a Pennsylvania native but spent fifteen years in San Francisco and four years in Washington, DC, before returning to her home state. She earned a bachelor’s degree in human services from the University of Scranton and has seven years of experience working for nonprofit organizations, including the Washington National Cathedral, where for two years she coordinated education programs such as lectures and short-term classes. Even though she reads for a living, she still reads voraciously for pleasure; she also journals and has been known to compose poetry.