Jill Coste teaches Copyediting III for the Copyediting certificate program. She has fifteen years of writing and editing experience in university and other non-profit environments. She began her editing career in college communications offices, copyediting annual reports, alumni magazines, and campus correspondence. Jill holds a PhD in English with a focus on children’s and young adult literature from the University of Florida, where she was also a copyeditor for the Journal of Undergraduate Research and the academic journal ImageText. As a freelance editor, Jill works with children’s and YA literature as well as academic writing.