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About the Author

Kimber Severance is a Content Writer and Editor from Pennsylvania. While her roots remain in the forested hills of the East Coast, she has also lived for many years in the mountainous deserts of the West Coast.

Kimber has been an avid writer all her life, writing all kinds of content like novels, short stories, poems, booklets, pamphlets, webpages, articles, social media posts, and more. She has a great love for words and all the ways they can inform, help, and inspire readers.

Kimber has a long history as a Financial Writer where she has used her extensive financial research to advise and inform her readers on the tips and know-how the everyday person needs to be financially savvy.

Experience

Kimber Severance's professional experience has included many things in the writing and editing fields. She has worked for academic journals, international magazines, linguisitic journals, personal finance, legal finance, and more.

Assistant Editor and Acquisitions Editor for the Schwa Language and Linguistics Journal
Assistant Editor for the Kennedy Center at BYU working on the Bridges Alumni Magazine
Content Writer, Copyeditor, and Social Media Manager for the Latter-Day Insights Blog
Content Manager, Content Writer, Copywriter, and Social Media Manager for the Cash Academy Blog
Content Writer and Editor at Scryp Legal Funding
Copyeditor and Back Ad Copywriter for Dorrance Publishing
Freelance Copyeditor and Copywriter through By Kimber services

Skills

Kimber Severance has had the opportunity to work in my positions in the industry of words. Her professional skills range from meticulous organization to all forms of content editing, and more.

Copywriting
Substantive Editing and Content Editing
Copyediting, Proofreading, Line Editing
Organization
Project Management
Internal Communications
Documentation and Record Keeping
Teamwork
Meeting daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly deadlines and due dates
Working alongside authors in the acquisition and editing process
Reviewing and choosing content for acquisitions

Writing Skills

Articles, webpages, brochures, pamphlets, informational ebooks, guest articles, press releases, social media captions, advertisement copy, transactional and marketing email content, and back advertisement copy for books.

Writing topics include personal finance, small business finance, legal finance, taxes, community service, linguistics, personal health and wellbeing, and marketing ad copy for various companies.

Editing Skills

Marketing content, company compliance reports, company policies and procedures, fiction and nonfiction manuscripts including genres such as autobiographies, memoirs, science fiction, romance, action thrillers, fantasy, and more.

Education

Kimber Severance received her bachelor's degree in English with a minor in Editing at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah. During her time at BYU, she was involved in the English Department, the English Society club, the Linguistics Department, and the International Studies Department.

Graduated: April 2019

Major: English

Minor: Editing

Involved in the English Society Club
Worked for the English Department
Copyeditor for the Kennedy Center for International Studies
Copyeditor for the Alumni Bridges Magazine
Staff Editor for the Schwa Linguistic Student Journal
Volunteer counselor for Boy Scout Pow Wow event
Published academic article, "Linguistic Lessons from The Office"