Meet Meagan Davenport: Your Copyediting Partner

Meagan has been editing in some capacity since high school, and was thrilled to finally get the official job title of “editor” in 2021. A reduction in force some years later prompted her to pivot into freelancing, combining her passions for the written word, all things European history, and biblical counseling—not to mention 20+ years’ business experience—into one big Venn diagram.

A Peek Into the Past

One of the earliest comments Meagan remembers from a report card was that she was already correcting her teacher’s spelling.

That was in second grade.

Even then, she was a voracious reader; in third grade, she clocked close to 9,000 pages read by year’s end. (For context, The Lord of the Rings is approximately 1,200 pages.)

Reading and words matter. Meagan knows that all too well as a copyeditor; she’s spent years polishing all kinds of documents for consistency, clarity, and, of course, grammatical accuracy.

When she’s not copyediting, you’ll likely find her advocating in one fashion or another for the Oxford comma—and the introverts among us (including herself), who recharge alone or in quieter settings.

She was a presenter at several internal company events; notable sessions include:

• “Gently Shake the World: How introverts can thrive during company meetings, and how extroverts can support them”
• “Introvert Advocacy in an Extrovert World”