Stacey Kucharik

Education & Licensure

• BS English & BS Communication with minors in Creative Writing & Philosophy
• MA Publishing with a focus on editing
• Professional Certificate in ePublishing

Biography

Stacey Kucharik began her editing company, Polished Print, fourteen years ago.  She has worked with hundreds of authors to polish their manuscripts into publishable novels.  Though her background began with academic editing, Stacey works with fiction authors exclusively and edits between ten and fifteen novels per year and recently celebrated the 300th novel in her professional career. Stacey holds two Bachelor’s degrees in English with a focus on creative writing and Communications as well as a Master’s degree in Publishing with a focus on editing from Rosemont. Polished Print aspires to educate authors and posts frequent educational videos about the publishing process and improving writings on Facebook.  Stacey has participated in multiple writing and publishing conferences in the past five years and has taught collegiate-level courses on editing and self-publishing.  For more information about Stacey, visit www.polishedprint.com or find us on Facebook.

Graduate Courses

• Publishing and editing the Full-Length Fiction
• Non-credit Writer’s Studio Workshop, Creative Writing
• Self-Publishing 101
• Reading Critically for Revision
• Manuscript Preparation