References

"Heidi has a keen editorial eye. I enjoyed our back-and-forth conversation as she helped me to shape and polish a piece for publication in VQR. If you want your work to shine brighter, then Heidi Siegrist is the editor for you."

-Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country

"Heidi is a meticulous researcher, a sharp editor, and a complete joy to work with."

-Ryan Bradley, award-winning reporter (VQR, National Geographic, and Popular Science, among others).

"Heidi was great to work with. Her comments made me feel appreciated and the edits were spot-on: granular and clarifying."

-Nishanth Injam, winner of the 2021 PEN/Dau Prize and the 2022 National Magazine Award for fiction

"Heidi's feedback on my novel brought the manuscript from draft one to draft five in one fell swoop. I can't praise her enough -- she is the astute and incisive editor every writer needs."

-Rafael Frumkin, author of The Comedown and Confidence

"Heidi is a visionary editor, pushing my story to the best version of itself. She's reliable and prompt and a genius at improving work on the line level and regarding big picture concerns."

-Lydia Conklin, author of Rainbow, Rainbow

Heidi's editing skills have a fractal-like elegance. She can work at the grand scale, seeing the full potential in a scribbled outline. She can work at a small scale, catching grammatical errors that have all but escaped notice. And she can work her artistry in the middle ground

studying a well-developed scholarly article to suggest a tweak to a persuasive argument; or asking a helpful question about the particulars of character or voice in a short story so that ‘good’ becomes ‘excellent’.

-Patricia Sammon, Best American Non-Required Reading (2019)