About Two Rivers Editing

Confluence 1: A coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point; 2: the junction of two rivers

Every writer needs a keen, impartial perspective and a champion. At Two Rivers, we believe in meaningful stories and outstanding writing. Editing at its best involves collaboration between the writer and editor to midwife your words and unique ideas into a beautifully crafted manuscript. Your book or writing project deserves to reach its destination: an enthusiastic audience. Revision is an essential path toward a polished manuscript, gaining recognition, and publication. Your vision and effort, our guidance: just the right touch at the right time to help your project flow to its fullest potential.

Greta has taught and worked with writers of fiction and nonfiction for close to two decades. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans, her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, and an MA in Whole Systems Design at Antioch University Seattle. Greta has extensive training and experience in close literary analysis and critique and state-of-the-art literary editing—see list of editing courses below. She works with new and seasoned authors, helping them improve their writing and share their stories with appreciative readers. Clients receive feedback on multiple aspects of craft and genre to prepare them for the standards and expectations of publishing. For marketing, she’ll share resources and strategies or refer you to a specialist.

Over the years, Greta has won literary, academic, and artistic awards and participated in writing residencies around the U.S., and in Spain, France, and Italy. Her historical novel, set in southern Italy at the end of WWI, earned finalist status in the 2016 Pacific Northwest Writers literary competition (stay tuned). She’s written extensively on cultural and environmental topics in French, Italian, and English literature. Greta provided editorial consultation and wrote the front cover blurb for the memoir Music to My Years: Life and Love Between the Notes, by JoAnn and Artie Kane, Amphora Editions (2017). She was the principal translator of Vinciane Despret’s critical essay “Why ‘I had Not Read Derrida,’” featured in the collection of essays French Thinking About Animals, Michigan State University Press (2015). Her translations of poems by Giovanni Pascoli have appeared in The Italian Poetry Review, Columbia University Press (2013), and in Ezra: Online Journal of Translation (2007).

For eight years, Greta taught literature and writing (in English) as well as language courses for the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Italian at the University of Washington. And for four years, she taught transdisciplinary courses to adult learners in the Individualized Master of Arts Program at Antioch University Midwest. She continues to teach independently for organizations and individual learners.

As a writer, she’s benefited from excellent editing and learned from some of the most qualified professionals in the field. She regularly attends writing and editing conferences and workshops sponsored by member organizations, such as: the Northwest Editors Guild, the Association of Writers & Writing Professionals (AWP), the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA), and the North Carolina Writers Network, and shares the wealth of knowledge, insights, and developments with her clients and community of writers. Because writing is mysterious as well as difficult, and we’re all in this together.

Greta has lived and pursued life stories in various spots around the globe. These days, she is mostly based in the Pacific Northwest, Western North Carolina, and Italy-France.