Kirk L. Kroeker "Technology, too, obeys the law of responding, of answering a call at whose origin we are encountering so much static." -- Avital Ronell

 
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My name is Kirk L. Kroeker and you've found your way to my personal site. I work as a contract editor for several publishing companies. If you're looking for an editor who has a broad knowledge of tech, drop me a note. I'm fluent in most major stylebooks, including Chicago, MLA, and AP. If I'm booked, I'd be more than happy to forward your request to another editor who will treat your project with care.

I've worked as an editor for nearly a decade and a half, starting my career in publishing at eMedia, a magazine devoted to new-media technologies and trends. After working at eMedia for two years, I took a position at Computer magazine, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society, where I worked for three years. After Computer, I went freelance to do contract editorial work for a range of tech publications, including Intelligent Systems, Software, Internet Computing, Multimedia, Pervasive Computing, and several others. I did a stint for a year as managing editor at ECT News, and I also worked for a few years as managing editor at NewsFactor Network.

I received a BA in Philosophy from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) in 1990 and an MA in English from California State University, Northridge (Northridge, California) in 1992. I did PhD work at Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts), where I was awarded a fellowship and taught writing and a few upper-division lit courses. I completed my course work and doctoral exams. My dissertation, which remains perpetually incomplete, is entitled "History's Modernisms / Modernism's Histories: Dystopian Fiction from 1900 to 1950."

I've bylined several hundred articles, reviews, columns, and news pieces over the years; I've posted a few pieces on my published work page. I also maintain BetterEditor.org, a collection of links to online resources for working editors and writers. Strangely, BetterEditor.org gets big bursts of traffic now and then. About a year ago, it briefly entered the top 100K on Alexa. Go figure. BetterEditor.net, the companion site, is a collection of editorial books with links to Amazon. If you notice any broken links on either site, please let me know.


"The coming to presence of technology threatens revealing, threatens it with the possibility that all revealing will be consumed
in ordering and that everything will present itself only in the unconcealedness of standing-reserve. Human activity can never
directly counter this danger. Human achievement alone can never banish it." -- Martin Heidegger

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