Katherine Isaacs

Katherine Isaacs is an experienced freelance lexicographer, proofreader, and copy editor, with a career spanning several decades. Since 1994, Katherine has been affiliated with Exactly So/Free Range Lexicography, providing expert language services. Currently serving as a proofreader for Little, Brown and Company since January 2012, Katherine has worked on diverse publications, including dictionaries, cookbooks, and biographies. In addition, Katherine has been an understudy to proofreaders at Seven Days since February 2014, and a copy editor for Harvard Education Press since September 2017. Katherine contributed as a lexicographer at Dictionary.com from March 2020 to April 2024, focusing on definitions and style. Katherine also has experience as an assistant editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, where responsibilities included writing and editing definitions for the American Heritage Dictionary. Beyond publishing, Katherine volunteered with the Barbados Sea Turtle Project in the summer of 2021. Katherine holds a Bachelor's Degree in Medieval & Renaissance Studies from Wellesley College, earned between 1983 and 1987.