We’re an editorial agency focused on complex content
Since 2005, Dragonfly Editorial has been helping companies around the globe make complex messages clear. We do that through precise writing, careful editing, and creative, function-focused design. We specialize in complex subjects like IT, healthcare, and engineering. And we approach our work with a helpful attitude and a sense of good cheer.
What makes us different? We are:
Committed to clarity in words and design
Highly attentive to detail and determined to get the job done right
Ready to go at a moment’s notice
Good humored and cheerful, with a ready smile
Friendly, helpful, and supportive
We love helping our clients succeed
Meet your Dragonfly Management Team
Dragonfly Editorial was founded in 2005 by Samantha Enslen, an award-winning writer with a background in technology and a love of language. Today, we’re a team of writers, editors, and designers working together to help clients around the world create amazing content. When you contact Dragonfly, here’s who you’ll meet.
Samantha Enslen
President
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Samantha has spent 15 years editing B2B, medical, and IT content. She’s the former editorial manager for CSC and a former contributing editor to the Editorial Eye. She’s also an award-winning writer who has been recognized for her marketing collateral, including websites, brochures, and white papers. Sam’s a past president of her local chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), and a board member of the American Copy Editors Society (ACES). Samantha lived in Washington, D.C., for many years before returning to her hometown of Dayton, Ohio. In addition to running Dragonfly Editorial, Samantha speaks at professional conferences—helping editors and other technical professionals understand each other’s needs and processes. Outside of work, Samantha’s favorite writers are Michael Dirda, Nevil Shute, Patrick O’Brian, Agatha Christie, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. She has a major crush on Bryan Garner.
Lisa Péré
Writing Manager
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Lisa Péré loves working with words, which is a good thing because editing and writing—not to mention reading—take up a good portion of her week. She spends the rest of her time enjoying her children, pets, music, film and the beautiful Colorado landscape.
Margaret Walker
Editorial Manager
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Margaret Walker manages to stay on top of the editing department, despite the odd tripod she climbed to get here: poetry and fiction writer, technical writer, and advertising copywriter. She is passionate about travel, cooking, gardening, and animals. She is usually immersed in music, movies, and books.
Alexis Nesbitt
Design Manager
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I have an English degree and a BFA in design, and those two degrees sum me up pretty nicely. I love decorating, gardening, and the endless tweaking that goes with them. I enjoy my kids (8 and 10) the older they get, but simultaneously want them to stop growing—is that possible??
Bethany Reiff
Copywriter
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Bethany Reiff is a writer and editor who relishes helping others give voice to their vision. Her 15 years of experience include corporate communications, public relations, technical writing, and editing in fields such as healthcare, public education, engineering, and government. She lives for traveling, reading, writing, and spending time with her family.
Melissa Blevins
Copywriter
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Melissa is a writer for Dragonfly Editorial and a serial volunteer. Asking “How can I help?” has taken her to Beijing, China with the U.S. Olympic Committee and waist-deep in pond water for Five Rivers MetroParks. Melissa lives in Springboro, Ohio, with her husband and two of the planet's funniest kids.
Michelle Anderson
Senior Editor
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Michelle Anderson is a medical editor with 20 years of experience. When she’s not careening across the countryside on her horse, hiking through the wilderness with her dog, or rescuing yet another animal, she can be found, cup of tea in hand, working away on medical journals, CME programs, and federal government proposals. She holds degrees in English, medieval studies, and classical languages. In short, she has spent an inordinate amount of her life in university classrooms and libraries. Her medieval Latin and Old Norse reading groups keep her from total academic withdrawal.
Kathryn Flynn
Senior Editor
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Kathryn Flynn has edited just about everything — newspapers, proposals, travel books, a coloring book (yes, there were words involved), web content — even a restaurant wall (“it’s” a long story). She enjoys the beach, a nice glass of wine, Springsteen, and watching college basketball. (Go Hoosiers!) She does not enjoy ironing.
Molly Gamborg
Editor
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Molly Gamborg is a technical editor with 15 years of experience in computing and technology, finance, healthcare and pharmaceutical, and corporate editing. She has an MA in Old and Medieval English (hwaet!) and a BA in English. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, volunteering, and binge-watching Doctor Who.
Our Global Team
Dragonfly Editorial employs a wide range of experts in many different fields, giving you someone who knows what you do, and how to communicate your message to your audience.
Cynthia Williams
Editor
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Cynthia has 15 years’ experience editing manuscripts, proposals, newsletters, corporate communications, and reports on environmental, governance, and social justice issues; program evaluation and community capacity-building; and social science. She enjoys walking with her partner and reading poetry collections and novels.
Lindsey Alexander
Editor
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Lindsey Alexander lives in Indiana with her husband and dog. Her specialty: corralling unwieldy jargon into stables of plain language. She also enjoys writing, reading, baking, and sewing, which are all really more exciting than they sound--she swears. For more, visit www.ldalexander.com.
Dana Johnson
Editor
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Dana is a scientist, educator, editor, and writer who is most content when two or more of her loves come together. A freelancer for nine years, Dana has authored or edited dissertations, articles, educational materials, white papers, organization literature, and self-published works. Her favorite days include sunshine, books, and family celebrations that involve board games.
Kimberly Yowler
Lead Proposal Writer
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Kimberly Yowler writes and edits high-tech proposals, user manuals, and reports of all sorts. IT, DoD, DoJ, UAV, IC, MDA...if it has acronyms, she's all over it. When she puts down her red pen, you can find her kayaking a quiet lake or trying to learn to cook.
Shara Pantry
Writer
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Shara Pantry is a writer and editor with experience in the fields of microbiology/infectious diseases and oncology. She has over 10 years of experience writing scientific journal articles and conference abstracts/posters. Shara also has experience editing scientific manuscripts, reporting conference sessions, and writing white papers and pharmaceutical training modules.
Kimberly Breasseale
Designer
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Kimberly is a graphic designer with a degree in Fashion Illustration from the Art Institute of Atlanta. When the beautiful art of fashion illustration fell to photography and the wonders of Photoshop, Kimberly migrated into print production and graphic design. She enjoys all aspects of design, recognizing the different needs of individual clients, and quickly shifting gears from one project to the next. She's also a very skilled production manager; banners, catalogs, premiums or trade show displays, and is always a reliable source to get the job done.
Laurie Wells
Editor
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Laurie discovered her talents for editing and writing as an unofficial on-call wordsmith and reviewer among her dorm mates in college. Twenty years later, she still enjoys the challenge of helping people communicate through writing--editing proposals, slide deck presentations, and technical reports; writing for marketing campaigns, social media outreach, magazines, and newsletters; prepping content for translation; and ghost blogging. When she’s not playing with words, you can find her outside running, hiking, climbing, skiing, skating, swimming, or just sitting.
James Fraleigh
Editor
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James M. Fraleigh has run a copyediting and proofreading practice in northern New Jersey since 2009. He specializes in nonfiction, with experience in psychology, social science, academic texts, biography, public policy, and computer science. Deadlines are my lifeline!
Kari Shafenberg
Editor
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A life-long grammar nut, Kari edits from beautiful Denver, Colorado, where she lives with her husband and son. When she's not researching acronyms or fighting against passive voice, Kari enjoys cooking and enjoying Colorado's thriving craft beer industry.
Sophie Michals
Editor
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Sophie has more than 20 years of experience editing technical and medical content and managing editorial projects. When she's not editing, she can be found riding her bicycle on the streets of Chicago, seeing live music, or playing with dogs.
Nancy Brooks
Editor
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Nancy Brooks is based in St. Albans, Vermont (aka South Canada). She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in public policy. Her claims to fame are spotting typos in TV news graphics and remembering exactly where her daughters left their toys.
Susanna Sprinkel-Eighmey
Editor & Designer
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Susanna Sprinkel-Eighmey fell in love with writing as a child and developed a full-fledged addiction to editing in college. With 18+ years in publications, Susanna finds satisfaction in developing client relationships and molding their writing into something flawless.
Amy Welde
Editor
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Amy Welde is a freelance editor and writing advisor with a background in psychology, human resources, and healthcare. She lives with her family in a suburb of Philadelphia, PA, and enjoys reading, hiking, biking, cooking vegan food, and watching reality television.
Jenny Stout
Editor
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Jenny Stout has more than 20 years of experience as both a technical editor and a project manager. When she's not traveling abroad or exploring Southern California, she's listening to pop music unironically and running silly hyper-specific photo blogs.
Dave Nelsen
Editor
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Dave Nelsen has been a copyeditor and proofreader for 20 years, specializing in nonfiction. Before joining Dragonfly in 2017, Dave worked for a monthly quality control magazine and a couple of ad agencies. Since 2009, he’s operated his own freelance company, The Grammar Geek.
Anna Bentley
Editor
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Anna Bentley is a writer and editor based in Atlanta, Georgia. She loves em dashes and bad movies. She hates hyphenated –ly adverbs and opening cans of biscuits. She was once an extra in zombie movie and is still trying to wash the corn syrup out of her hair.
Jason Bovberg
Editor
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Jason Bovberg spent 16 years with Penton Media, editing and writing for a computer magazine and consumer electronics website. He is also a mystery/horror novelist.
Melissa Brown Levine
Editor
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Melissa Brown Levine is a copy editor and proofreader. She has edited and proofread academic, nonfiction, technical, and fiction titles for publishers, editorial firms, and independent authors. Melissa has also written web content for small business, as well as press releases and movie treatments for authors.
Meredith Dittmar
Designer
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Meredith is a graphic design professional. She attained her designer’s eye while studying fine arts and art history at the University of New Hampshire. Her specialties include presentation and publications, corporate branding, website design, and illustration. Meredith lives in Lakeville, CT, where she enjoys gardening, painting, and occasionally still plays with dolls.
Kelly Rickard
Editor
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Kelly Rickard has been a freelance editor since 2005. She has a BA from the University of Minnesota in English and Chinese. Prior to becoming an editor, she worked as a technical writer and taught English in China. She enjoys the camaraderie and variety of projects at Dragonfly Editorial.
Jeni Crockett-Holme
Lead Medical Editor
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Jeni Crockett-Holme, ELS, is an editor specializing in content related to medicine, health, and technology. Her education is in journalism and gerontology, and she is certified as an editor in the life sciences. Jeni has more than 15 years of experience professional journals, corporate communications, and scholarly manuscripts. In her spare time, she ice skates and reads fiction for fun.
Anastasia Miller
Designer
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Scottie Kersta-Wilson
Editor
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Delilah Powell
Designer
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Dee is a Microsoft Word guru who magically formats proposals and deliverables with a wave of her hand. Actually, she uses a keyboard, templates, and styles to ensure that proposals look great, fit within page count, and match the RFP. Bonus: her military background means her work is precise and she never misses a deadline.
Cynthia Smith
Writer
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Beth Golden
Editor
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Beth Golden has been a linguaphile from a young age, inspired by her childhood on the island of Guam. Beth holds a degree in journalism from James Madison University in Virginia, where she lives with her husband, children, cat and dog. Favorite phrase: none the wiser. Least favorite: low-hanging fruit.