Rae Stringfield
• writer • editorial consultant • educator •
Featured Stories
Hey, it’s us: the Sophists. If you’re asking “Who?” then you’re neither a professor of rhetoric nor one of those undergrads who took Philosophy 101 and won’t stop throwing around decontextualized philosophical quotes to seem intelligent—good for you!
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency
The first time, he thought they’d be like chicken bones—pliable, splintering when he bent them between his fingers—but they weren’t. Bendiness resulted from cooking, he guessed, from heat, and he made a note to find out for sure. This information wasn’t relevant, really—his mother hadn’t been baked, her bones wouldn’t be like a dinner chicken’s... Read more
The Waking
Pushcart nominee
It was the summer after they rerouted the freeway away from our town, when our dads and some moms left to find jobs as our cupboards ran dry. The summer we were so hungry we committed blasphemy: snuck into the church basement for the plush nativity scene we’d sewn in home ec, excavated bean-filled bodies and ate like gluttons... Read more
NYC Midnight
Short Story Challenge winning story
a bit about Rae
Rae Stringfield (she/her) grew up in the Tennessee Valley. She is a PhD student in University of New Mexico's Rhetoric & Writing program and holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University, where she served as Fiction Editor for Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment. She has taught creative writing, rhetoric and writing, multimodal composition, and special topics honors courses.
Rae is a Pushcart-nominated writer, an avid reader, a freelance editorial consultant, and a writing instructor. She is currently at work on her first novel.
Editorial Services
for short fiction, novellas, and novels
Content Edit
A content edit is appropriate for a manuscript that already has all the essential components including solid plot, round characters, and an ending. A content edit understands a manuscript’s goals and views the project as a whole to provide both big-picture and focused analysis and suggestions that support the author in realizing the manuscript’s full potential.
Line-editing
Line-editing focuses on style and language and is appropriate for a manuscript in its final stages. Line-editing attends to consistency in tone and point-of-view, trims redundancies, reduces unnecessary passive voice, ensures clarity of meaning, smooths transitions, and pays special attention to dialogue.
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