Alison Aves
Chapel Hill, NC
USA
Professional Experience
In nearly 18 years of assembling and polishing words for purposes both editorial and marketing, I've consistently been awed by how much can be achieved with well-crafted content. As a writer I tend to please clients who appreciate an irreverent tone, and I love nothing more than teasing out a new way to convey a familiar idea. As an editor, I strive for precision and elegance but tread lightly where the author's voice is key to the message. A colleague once commented that the worst thing an editor can do is leave in her work a stake proclaiming that she was there; I've carried that wisdom with me ever since.
