Sarah Ramsey - Senior Developmental Editor

Sarah Ramsey holds a M.A. in Science, Technology and Public Policy and a B.A. in History. She has spent most of the last two decades doing strategic communications work for space-focused organizations like NASA. She wishes she could write space-based, because if she could live anywhere else, Mars would be it. 

In addition to providing communications expertise to government agencies and non-profit organizations, she writes genre fiction and short- and long-form articles for food and beverage industry publications. In her free time, you can find her working through a long to-be-read list and an even longer to-be-written list.

Has been part of the team since: January 2017

I believe in this principle, even though it isn’t always the popular opinion: Because I like contradictions, I believe that to write well you must always be thinking, but that you shouldn’t overthink how you write. To me, writing is like the overflow buffer for the brain – you get your thinking all out on the screen or in notebooks (or on napkins, the back of envelopes, old receipts buried in your purse). It can be helpful to think about your individual  process of writing with an eye to improvement, but the most important thing is to get words on the page. You can’t fix what isn’t there.

Specialties & Interests: Development Editing, Content Editing, Science and Technology, Food and Beverage (especially where it connects with small businesses and public policy), Pop Culture and Fandom, Genre Fiction

Location: Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Most Read Book: Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire and The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Favorite Story to Tell: My high school had an exchange program with a school in Germany. During my month-long stay there, we took a three-day trip to Berlin. We were there when the country voted on keeping the still-newly unified country’s capital in Bonn or moving it back to Berlin. Berlin won the vote, and the city went crazy in celebration. Strangers were hugging each other, cars honked, people cheered, there was a massive crowd in the Breitscheidplatz – for a group of kids from a small town in Arkansas, this was like nothing we’d ever seen. We were welcomed to the celebration like we were from there, and that changed the way I looked at the world.

If you want to connect, find me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Instagram.