Lisa’s Critique Service

I am the author of the Middle East memoir Through the Veil and The Fifth Season: A Daughter-in-Law's Memoir of Caregiving, (fall 2013). I have an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. My essays have been published in a number of national literary journals, and I was the Creative Nonfiction Editor of Relief Journal from 2007 through 2010. In my critiques I will look for strength and potential in your work. I’ll tell you where your writing is most effective and how this can be enhanced. My critique will include editorial corrections in grammar, punctuation, and usage, as well as craft-oriented guidance that will provide you with skills to shape and polish a particular essay and tools for use in your future writing projects.

I have worked with writers on the following types of projects:

• developmental editing
• individual literary essays
• essay collections
• college application essays
• book-length manuscripts.

Cost: Pricing is customized. Ask about my free editing sample on an excerpt of your work.

To learn more please send me an email at lisa@lisaohlenharris.com. Tell me something about yourself and your writing:

• Description of your writing project
• Writing courses you have taken
• Critique group or mentors
• Publication history (if you're published)
• Contact information

There is no charge until we have agreed on the details of your critique package.
References available upon request.

Client testimonial:

Your package of editing critiques, comments, suggestions, ideas, instruction, and book/journal lists has a much higher value than the cost. Thanks to working with and learning from you, my essay is vastly improved. More importantly, however, my concept of creative nonfiction has experienced a sea change.

Your editor's voice is in my head permanently now, and that is a very good thing! You helped me think through why I want to write, where I want to go with it, and how to get there.

—Elizabeth Westmark