Clare MacQueen, Editorial Consultant
Clare is a copy editor and writer with 25 years of experience. She has a BA degree in English (with an emphasis in Creative Writing), and graduate-level studies in British Literature, Library Science, and Technical Communication.
Clare’s professional experience includes eight years as Equivalency Review Coordinator at the University of Washington (the UW), where she was responsible for the accuracy of the Equivalency Guide (the EG).
The EG is a technical manual which lists how courses from Washington state community and technical colleges transfer to the UW. By the time she resigned in late 2003, her work had resulted in expansion of the online Course Equivalency Tables to more than 18,000 entries.
In 1999, Clare established edit4clarity, where she moonlighted for seven years, focusing on technical and academic copyediting, as well as writing for professionals.
Major projects included Microsoft Access 2000 Development: Unleashed, a manual for intermediate-level programmers published by Sams Publishing; and The Birds of Yakima County, Washington, a text for ornithologists published by the Yakima Valley Audubon Society.
In 2005, Clare teamed up with Gary Gibbons and shifted her focus to projects via Puget Custom PC.
In her spare time, she’s writing a memoir. An excerpt from her book won an Eric Hoffer Editor’s Choice Prose Award and appears in Best New Writing 2007.