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Thomas Goldberg

Thomas Goldberg was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an honors degree in English literature. He spent two semesters in Penn’s graduate program and then relocated to New York City, where he worked for several publishing companies. He received his initial editorial training as a production intern in the college textbook division of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.

After several years, he returned to Philadelphia, married, and enrolled in the Masters in Elementary Education program at Temple University. He taught sixth grade in the Philadelphia public schools system for four years before he and his wife moved to rural New Hampshire, where they built a large log cabin on fifty acres of land. Thomas cut a lot of firewood, plowed his driveway, and taught in elementary schools in New Hampshire and Vermont. He was awarded a summer fellowship in the Masters of Liberal Arts Studies Program at Dartmouth College.

During the years that Thomas taught school, he continued to season his skills as an editor by also working as a freelance copyeditor. He eventually left teaching and returned to publishing—initially as the managing editor of a trade magazine and then as an editor and codirector of a small publishing company in Vermont.

Thomas recently took a break and spent a year and a half in the Southern Hemisphere: ten months resting, writing, and dodging falling coconuts on a small island in Fiji and then six months working and visiting friends in Australia.

Since returning to the United States, Thomas has been living in Northern California and has continued his profession as a freelance copyeditor. In his free time, he enjoys riding his bike along a trail that parallels the American River in Sacramento, and he also volunteers at a homeless shelter.

Thomas enjoys editing a wide range of nonfiction manuscripts—from trade books to academic manuscripts. He has a particular interest in working with authors whose first language is not English.