About Me

Hello! I’m Iris Sutcliffe, and I’ve been an editor, content producer, and project manager since 1996. I’m also a bird watcher, midpack runner, and backyard chicken wrangler.

I have experience crafting a broad spectrum of content:

• Websites: Online magazines, TV network sites, nonprofits, e-commerce, and more
• Consumer, Trade + Custom Magazines: Fashion, beauty, health and fitness, cooking, parenting, celebrity, design, sports, travel
• Academic Textbooks: Law, management, education, economics, history, and more, from elementary to university courses
• Corporate + Nonprofit: In-house communications, design lookbooks, training manuals, financial reports, white papers
• Self-Publishing Authors
• Journal Articles

My editing style was once compared to a butter knife. That’s a good thing!
I perfect your manuscript while respecting your writing voice and style. Writing can be a difficult and emotional process. My primary job is to help with the technical aspects of grammar, style, and logic, leaving you free to focus on the creative aspects of writing.

Services

More than 15 years of experience as an editor and managing editor for consumer magazines and websites has given me the skills and efficiencies to offer a fast turnaround time—without sacrificing quality. My broad range of technical skills helps you save both time and money.

• Editing + Writing
  • Copyediting
  • Developmental editing, aka line editing or top editing
  • Web content editing. I know my way around HTML, Drupal, Movable Type, WordPress, Zoho, and your custom CMS.
  • Writing and content producing. One of my specialities is converting print content for the Web.

• Project management
• Self-publishing authors: I’ll help you take your next project from rough manuscript to finished work.

My clients include:

• Websites
• Magazines
• Book publishers and packagers
• Corporate and nonprofit groups
• Self-publishing authors
• ESL students and professionals
• University researchers, professors, and students

Clients + Projects

I’ve produced and edited content for…

Websites + Social Media
A&E Networks, myLifetime.com, History.com, Biography.com — Writer and editor, Web and app content
iVillage.com — Writer and editor, Web content and newsletters
NetworkForGood.org — Writer, Web and social media content. Check out a few of my pieces:
— Facebook Tips for Nonprofits: How Sanctuary One Inspires and Connects with Supporters
— How to Create a Nonprofit Editorial Calendar
— How to Stand Out with Email (adapted from webinar transcript)
— Web Writing for Nonprofits: 4 Do’s and Don’ts
Sharecare.com — Content conversion and editing (CDC, Dr. Oz, Harvard Health)
She & Me — Writer/editor of Web content
— Cleveland Clinic
— Four Seasons Resorts (destinations sections, including Shanghai, Cairo, Paris, and more)
— Lehigh Valley Health Network (Conditions & Treatments)
— Repair.com (relaunch content)
— Verizon app reviews

Magazines
Budget Living (Managing Editor)
Cargo
Child (Managing Editor)
Fortune
Golf for Women (Managing Editor)
Lucky (Assistant Managing Editor)
Mademoiselle
Men’s Fitness
Muscle & Fitness
Muscle & Fitness Hers (Project Manager)
O, The Oprah Magazine
Self
Sly (Project Manager)
Teen People

Corporate + Nonprofit Groups
American Cities Foundation
Isaac Mizrahi for Liz Claiborne
Management Concepts
Network for Good

Book Publishers/Packagers
Below is a partial list of the many books I’ve edited.

Art + Design

• American Contemporary Furniture, Marisa Bartolucci, Cathy Lang Ho
• Cottages by the Sea: The Handmade Homes of Carmel, America’s First Artist Community, Linda Leigh Paul
• Daniel Libeskind: The Space of Encounter, Daniel Libeskind
• Gwathmey Siegel: Buildings and Projects 1965–2000, Charles Gwathmey
• The Treehouse Book, Peter Nelson, Judy Nelson, and David Larkin

Education

• Infants & Toddlers: Development and Curriculum Planning, Peggy Deiner
• Race-Class Relations and Integration in Secondary Education: The Case of Miller High, Caroline Eick

Humanities/Monographs

• Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine, Vladimir Jankovic
• Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public, Robin Truth Goodman
• Jane Dolinger: The Adventurous Life of an American Travel Writer, Lawrence Abbott
• Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: Letters, 1953–1967, edited by Shane Graham and John Walters
• Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays, edited by Leo Carruthers et al.
• Staging Age: The Performance of Age in Theater, Dance, and Film, edited by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb and Leni Marshall
• Urban Space and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Sao Paolo, Brazil, Cristina Peixoto-Mehrtens
• What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics, Jason Scorse

Law + Management

• Dispute Resolution: Examples & Explanations, 2nd ed., Michael Moffitt and Andrea Kupfer Schneider
• Effective Risk Management: A Practitioner’s Guide, Hillson & Simon
• Intellectual Property Legal Opinions, Mark J. Thronson
• Law of the Internet, George B. Delta
• Smith & Roberson’s Business Law, 14th ed., Richard A. Mann
• Stempel on Insurance Contracts, Jeffrey W. Stempel
• U.S. and International Sales, Lease, and Licensing Law, Bryan Hull

Sports + Fitness

• Heart and Sole: How 26 Ran a Marathon, Melinda Neely
  

Contact Me

Contact me at isutcliffe@gmail.com or via the form below to discuss how we can work together on your next project.