
“Thank you to my beloved editors, Arlyn Lawrence and Kerry Wade. Your intuition, wisdom, patience, and creativity transformed my novel into what it is today!”
- Grace E. Running-Nichols, The Color of God: A Stratford Lane Novel,
“My wonderful editing team of Arlyn Lawrence and Kerry Wade were a tremendous help in narrowing the audience, focusing the content, and transitioning between topics. With your great insight, the sculpture took on a recognizable face.”
- Brian Causey, Trading Gods
“It was a pleasure to work with Kerry on my poetry manuscript. Being too close to the poems, I needed a professional editor and Kerry delivered. I would highly recommend her editing services to anyone that wants to make their collection of poems shine.”
- Alexander Bentley, She: A Love Story Told in Verse
“Thank you soo much for being patient and understanding most of what I wanted. I will definitely use you again for another book I am working on currently and definitely will go the self publishing route. You did an amazing job with the manuscript.”
- Heather Veronica Pierre-Louis, Truth and Texture
“I am very satisfied with this careful and comprehensive editorial work. This is just the level of detail and consideration that I needed in order to move forward with my manuscript.”
- Lora Berg, Lord of the Trowel
“Very thorough with her editing! I learned a lot for my future writing, and for my current works! Thanks so much!”
- Jesenia Vazquez, Of Unsound Mind
“Kerry was great to work with! Super communicative and extremely nice. She took my manuscript to a new exciting level and I would definitely work with her again.”
- Mar Gray, Phases of a Recovering Heart
“I very much enjoyed working with Kerry. Her feedback was insightful, well crafted and extensive. I have worked with several editors at this point, and I always get worried when they say something like "I didn't want to change too much because I wanted to retain your voice." To me, this comes like a bit of a cop out because it is an editors' job to fine tune as much as possible and it is the writers' job to then decide which of those edits they want to incorporate. Anyway, long way of saying Kerry did a wonderful job, and I highly recommend her services for anyone looking to have their poetry edited.”
- Kira Winter, Colors
Working with Kerry was absolutely incredible! She has an amazing ability to edit your poems in a way that keeps your voice in tack. Nothing was over edited or under edited, it was very balanced! You can tell that she is a true professional and is very skilled at what she does! I would highly recommend Kerry to anyone looking for a beautiful edit of their poetry collections.
- Katrina Jo Paulson, Reclaimed
“Kerry is an outstanding editor and collaborator. Her final edited deliverable is of exceptional quality: all the unnecessary fluff has been removed, the ideas have been clarified, and the narrative of the collection has been made more coherent and interesting. Kerry would be my first recommendation if someone asked me to recommend an editor for their poetry collection. I give her a 5/5 easily.”
- Nickels, title pending
“BRAVO, WOW, I am so impressed with her work overall, editing is so sharp and perceptive, a wonderful editing job here. I am so grateful for her skill, clarity, and dedication to this work Her love and skill in poetry really show.”
- Stephen Hollins, Her Soft Fingers Pickpocketed my Brain
“I am very happy with the work she provided. I recommend her to anyone looking for copy editing and proofreading.”
- “Eagle” Wayne Wright, Shipwrecked
“Kerry provided insightful and incredibly helpful advice on the manuscript I was working on. Without her help I would have missed a few plot holes and generally wouldn’t have been able to bring my writing up to scratch! She delivered her feedback, which also included checking over my agent submission letter, swiftly and was incredibly professional. It’s sometimes hard to know who to trust with writing consultation but I can 100% recommend Kerry and I will be using her services again!”
- Sam Cummings
professional poetry feedback
Poetry editing at every level

As a fellow poet, I know the importance of getting professional critique and feedback.
My edits include both a Developmental Edit and a Line Edit specifically looking at voice, tone, consistency, and flow. I analyze poem by poem and the collection together as a whole.
I'll edit your poems and leave constructive commentary via Microsoft Word's track changes feature.
A little bit about me:
I have a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing, with a focus on Poetry, and a master’s degree in Information and Library Science, which means I love both imagination and organization—the perfect combination for a novel editor!
I have worked as a high school English teacher, a librarian, and, for the last five years, an editor and author coach. I love seeing words come to life; helping people cross the bridge from wanting to write to poetry to becoming an poet.