Sari Wilson

Current

• Educational Consultant, Writer, and Editor at Independent Publishing Professional

Past

• Editor at Holt McDougal
• Research Editor at Playboy magazine
• Assistant Editor at The American Lawyer

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Education

• Stanford University
• University of Chicago
• Oberlin College

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Sari Wilson’s Summary

I am a writer, editor, and curriculum consultant, with a decade of experience in developing educational materials. Clients include Holt, Rinehart and Winston; McDougal Littell; Glencoe McGraw-Hill; Classroom, Inc.; and Teachers & Writers Collaborative.

My current focus is on graphic literature as an educational tool. I write and edit comics for Dojo Graphics, a studio started by me and my husband, cartoonist Josh Neufeld. Dojo Graphics specializes in story development (both original content and adaptations) of comics in multiple mediums. As a separate-and-together team, we have created motion comics for television, film, and the Internet, for clients such as ABC and Lifetime. (http://www.dojographics.net/)

I also offer professional development for teachers and administrators in incorporating comics into a traditional classroom curriculum. As a consultant, I work with publishers and other industry professionals, as well as independent creators interested in reaching the educational market.

I am interested in expanding my network of publishing professionals and in new professional opportunities.

Sari Wilson’s Specialties:

K-4, InCopy/InDesign, graphic literature, comics, curriculum consulting

Sari Wilson’s Experience

• Educational Consultant, Writer, and Editor

  Independent Publishing Professional

  (Publishing industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Freelance writing, editing, and copyediting with a specialty in educational materials. I am a thoughtful, dedicated writer and editor who works effectively on deadline and in all stages of projects--from the conceptual stage to the finishing touches.

• Editor

  Holt McDougal

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

  October 2002 — June 2008 (5 years 9 months)

  Write and edit educational materials for middle and high school students. TOC design, developmental editing, and copyediting for language arts textbooks and ancillaries.
  *With team, compiled, wrote, and edited Holt Multicultural Readers. Product won 2007 Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award.

• Research Editor

  Playboy magazine

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; PLA; Writing and Editing industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years )

  Worked with authors on rewrites, with editors and copy chief to clarify copy, and with legal counsel to assess integrity of sources.

• Assistant Editor

  The American Lawyer

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ALM; Media Production industry)

  April 1991 — March 1992 (1 year )

  Feature writing, reporting, and fact-checking.

Sari Wilson’s Education

• Stanford University

  Creative Writing 1997 — 1999

  Teaching Assistant (for Tobias Wolff). Taught discussion section for undergraduate English course “Development of the Short Story.”

  Activities and Societies:

  Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Program

• University of Chicago

  Certificate in Copy Editing , Copy Editing , 1995 — 1996

• Oberlin College

  Bachelor of Arts , History , 1986 — 1990

  Activities and Societies:

  Oberlin Dance Company, staff writer for "The Oberlin Review" and "The Perspective."
  Minors in Government and Dance.

Additional Information

Sari Wilson’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Sari Wilson’s Interests:

publishing industry, literary fiction (especially post-colonial fiction), young adult literature, buddhist philosophy, meditation, parenthood

Sari Wilson’s Groups:

Associated Writing Programs

•    LinkEds & writers
•    The Recruitment Network
•    Oberlin Alumni
•    Tools of Change for Publishing
•    Innovative Learning & Education Innovators
•    Instructional Designers and Curriculum Writers
•    Education Business Consulting Professionals
•    Content Strategy

Sari Wilson’s Honors:

*Artist-in-Residence, Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woodstock, New York, 2006
*Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship (for fiction), Provincetown, Massachusetts. 1999-2000.
*Patricia Rowe Willrich Fellowship in Fiction Writing, Stanford University, 1998-1999
*Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing, Stanford University, 1997-1999
*Masaryk Teaching Fellowship for teaching English as a Second Language, Prague, Czech Republic; Foundation for a Civil Society (formerly the Charter 77 Foundation), 1993

Sari Wilson’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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