About this guest

Rebecca Heyman and Jennifer Udden

Rebecca Heyman has a BA/MA in English and American Literature from NYU, and has been a freelance editor since 2009. She is the founder and director of The Work Conference, an annual writers' event in New York City. She lives outside of Boston with her husband, two kids, and a precocious Siberian cat.

Jennifer Udden is a freelance editor who, during her ten-year career as a literary agent, represented many award-nominees and bestsellers. Though she works in a wide variety of genres, her first loves will always be fantasy and science fiction. She lives in Brooklyn with her sister and the cutest dog in the world, Barnaby.