Sarah O’Brien, PhD (she/her)

Since I began editing full-time in 2021, I have edited over fifty books (and many more journal articles and book chapters) that have been published or are advancing through the publication process.

I restructured from a solo operation to a small agency in 2025 out of a desire to continue working with my growing roster of authors and to connect more writers with skilled editors.

My approach to editing is shaped by my doctoral training in comparative literature, experience as a writing professor, and research in film studies and animal studies. I strive to provide the kind of editorial feedback that I find most valuable as an academic writer: targeted suggestions that encourage you to enliven your prose, clarify your argumentative and analytical claims, strengthen your evidence, and achieve structural coherence. My goal is to maintain the complexity and rigor of academic writing while improving its readability.

My book, Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death, was published by University of Michigan Press in 2023. I’ve published articles in Cinema Journal, Screen, and Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media. You can read more about my editorial and academic background here.