A teacher’s patience. An editor’s discerning eye.

Annette Roy Davis is a writer, developmental editor, and book coach with a special interest in memoir, medical narrative, and creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The Coachella Review, Please See Me, the San Diego Business Journal, and The San Diego Union-Tribune.

She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of California, Riverside, and an MA and BA in English from the University of San Diego. She also earned a professional copyediting certificate from the University of California, San Diego. Her work spans ghostwriting, developmental editing, and book coaching, drawing on her experience in writing and teaching to help writers develop their ideas, strengthen their manuscripts, and bring clarity and structure to their books.

She is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, the Association of Ghostwriters, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Before focusing on writing and editing full time, she spent more than twenty years teaching writing and literature at the high school and college levels. Those years shaped her understanding of how writers learn, grow, and find their voice. She now lives in the Austin, Texas, area.