Ingrid Emerick

Ingrid Emerick is the author of City Walks Seattle: 50 Adventures on Foot (Chronicle, 2009) and the co-author of The Pocket Guide to the Afterlife (Bloomsbury, 2009), Intentions + Goals (Hartley and Marks, 2009), and Marble Elvis (Running Press, 2008). Co-editor of three travel essay collections: Gifts of the Wild: A Womanıs Book of Adventure (Seal, 1998), A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe (Seal, 2001), and Go Your Own Way (Seal, 2007), her writing has appeared in A Woman Alone and HipMama.com. She is a co-founder of Girl Friday Productions, a book development and editorial services company, and also teaches editing at the Richard Hugo House. She lives with her husband and two children in Seattle.

Kris Fulsaas

Fulsaas is a freelance editor and proofreader, specializing in guidebooks and similar nonfiction. Her clientele includes Countryman Press, Fulcrum Publishing, University of Washington Press and Sasquatch Books. In her 24 years in the publishing field, Fulsaas has been production editor for Alaska Northwest Books, and a production manager for two travel magazines. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from The Evergreen State College.

Niquette Kelcher

Niquette specializes in Web content management and currently works for the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. She teaches "MS Word for Editors" and "The Web-Savvy Editor" for the Editing Certificate program through University of Washington Extension, of which she herself is a 2004 graduate. She is the author of the "Technology for Editors" blog at www.tech4editors.com. Niquette has a degree in Education from Western Washington University and is a member of the Northwest Independent Editors Guild and Olympia Communicators Group.

Kim Runciman

Runciman is freelance editing professional with a wide range of editorial, publications management, corporate communications, and writing experience. A former copyeditor at online news and opinion magazine Slate, she was also the editor of the popular Dear Prudence column. Runciman was previously a copyeditor at Landor Associates, a worldwide packaging design and branding firm, and the editor of The Sound Consumer, PCC's member newspaper. She has been a copyeditor and writer on numerous fiction and creative nonfiction publications and e-zines, and often speaks about editing topics at workshops and conferences.

Bill Thorness

Bill Thorness is a Seattle writer and editor who has been working in the profession for more than 20 years, the last six as a full-time freelancer. He works for both media and corporate clients on projects from newsletters to white papers to books. His articles have appeared in many local publications, including the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Business Monthly. Previous editing jobs include a statewide newspaper and a national magazine. He is the author of Biking Puget Sound: 50 Rides from Olympia to the San Juans, published in 2007 by Mountaineers Books. Learn more about his work at www.billthorness.com.

Cherie Tucker

Owner of GrammarWorks, Tucker specializes in teaching language skills to professionals. She is an international speaker, editor and award-winning writer who has been on the radio and appeared on television. Her columns on grammar and usage have appeared in local and regional publications. Tucker has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington, and extensive experience in advertising, marketing and public relations.

Instructors are subject to change.