As a well-published and critically acclaimed author and the former director of one of the top MFA creative-writing programs in the country, Eileen also offers her services as a freelance editor and writing coach.
Whether you need encouragement to complete the initial version of a manuscript or honest but supportive feedback on a draft that you have taken as far as you can go without help from an objective but sympathetic reader, you will be grateful for Eileen’s guidance. She is equally adept at editing novels, short stories, essays, memoirs, and nonfiction books; she will assist you in structuring your work, developing your ideas, fleshing out your characters, understanding what you are writing about at the deepest level, and helping you to make your prose as natural, fluent, specific, concise, beautiful, and effective as possible.
As a long-time faculty member at the University of Michigan, Eileen worked with some of our finest young writers, among them Kristen Roupenian, Jesmyn Ward, Celeste Ng, Jia Tolentino, Uwem Akpan, Brit Bennett, Chris McCormick, Chigozie Obioma, Rebecca Scherm, Mo Daviau, Hannah Pylväinen, Randa Jarrar, Nami Mun, Preeta Samarasan, Natalie Bakopoulos, Dean Bakopoulos, Elizabeth Kostova, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sara Houghteling, Margaret Lazarus Dean, Scott Hutchins, Valerie Laken, Sharon Pomerantz, Patrick O’Keeffe, Francesca Delbanco, Bich Minh Nguyen, Porter Shreve, John Fulton, Jardine Libaire, Elwood Reid, and Donovan Hohn. She contributes a biweekly writing-advice column to Medium.com and can provide references from her more recent private clients, upon request.
For more information or to find out about Eileen’s rates, please contact her at eileenpollack@icloud.com
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