Hannah has the incredible ability to see through a manuscript to its core and tease out what it wants to be. Her direction helped give me a new language and set of questions with which to understand the purpose of my book. She has an impeccable understanding of craft from the level of each word, to each sentence, and to the entire manuscript. Seeing my work through her lens has given me renewed purpose and drive for my manuscript, illuminating the art within it, something that I had come to doubt after so many rounds of revision. I know I'll turn to Hannah in the future when I need a fresh read and path forward.

– Ella Mei Yon (Glimmer Train, Pigeon Pages)

Hannah Beresford is one of the best editors I've ever worked with. She'll fix your structural problems, she'll fix your sentences, she'll fix your life. She is a Writer Whisperer.

— Shelly Oria (author of New York: 1, Tel Aviv: 0, FSG, 2014 and editor of Indelible In The Hippocampus: Writings From The Me Too Movement, McSweeney's, 2019 & I Know What's Best for You, McSweeney’s, 2022)

It’s something special to have your work read and considered by Hannah. To say she looks at your fiction with “new eyes” would be an understatement; instead, she looks at it with eyes that are keen to find the most compassionate course for your story. She distills it down to its core and sends it back to you with a map to help you excavate the humanity in every character.

— Kells McPhillips (author of AthleteLit, a short story series about athletes)

I had the joy of working with Hannah on a short story collection and an essay collection in 2021. Hannah’s insight—in a developmental consult and line edits, for fabulist fiction and personal essay—pierced through to the heart of each story. Her feedback fully embraced my vision and voice while offering clear, dynamic solutions to elevate each individual piece and the arc of each manuscript. Hannah handled my work with great care and with her guidance I’m confident that I’ll be sharing the best possible evolution of these stories.

– Katie Li (author of Somewhere In Between, Kung Fu Girl Books, 2016)

Hannah brings a calm commitment and clarity to working with you. Her process is tailored toward your project and includes a close read like that of a publisher or an agent. Expect the following: an overview, targeted remarks, thought provoking questions and the potential of “re-ordering” an essay. Her wide lens of observation on your material works in tandem with her dexterity to home in on the micro matters of: narrative tension, structure, details that matter versus those that clutter, undeveloped scenes, grounding exposition, and more. In feedback notes, to avoid confusion in tricky and/or paramount sections, she places practical track changes in the document to illustrate her advice. A big jewel Hannah gave to my work was in the rearrangement of narrative threads that I, too preciously, had been holding onto. She did so, by providing me with a master class on ‘ratio and order’ where I better understood symbolic scale and the distribution of ideas. Hannah’s goal is to get your work published, not left in a drawer.

— Yvonne Conza (Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB)

Hannah's manuscript consultation was just the right blend of positivity and thoughtful criticism. She worked quickly and thoroughly, culminating in a written document and conversation that provided me with a global sense of what was and wasn't working in my novel, how best to move forward, and what questions I could use to guide the project. Her feedback gave me new perspective, helping me see the book from a reader's perspective, which was invaluable. After working with Hannah, I was left feeling excited to tackle the next draft.

— Kristin Sanders (author of Cuntry, Trembling Pillow Press, 2017)

The first word that comes to mind when I think of Hannah as an editor is generous. She read and edited my first book manuscript, which I had never shown to an editor before, and gave me such thoughtful and constructive feedback. She has made me a better poet and thinker; her approach to my work taught me so much about looking at familiar things as if they are new and strange, entirely in a good way! Sometimes as writers we get too close to our own work to properly see it, and Hannah's feedback helped me see my manuscript in a fresh and newly excited way. My book would not be nearly as cohesive without Hannah's wise editing.

— Annie Diamond (Yemassee, Tar River Poetry)

Working with Hannah was a delightful experience of softness when so much of the publishing world is so hard-edged. She is an editor interested in collaboration and understanding what a writer needs and wants for a piece, and she’s a person who clearly cares for writers as much as she does for our work. I felt held in my conversations with Hannah and in her comments on my pages. She helped me to uncover the overarching areas of the manuscript that were difficult to parse, and she made clear suggestions to remedy the writing—including guiding advice on nearly every page to ensure ease of revision. I would work with her again in a heartbeat.

— Afton Montgomery (Stain'd, Sugar Magazine)

Hannah is every writer's dream reader and editor—incredibly thoughtful, thorough, and whip-smart. After years of feeling stuck on my manuscript, she helped breathe new energy into my revision process, enabling me to see what needed to be done to strengthen both story and structure. Never prescriptive in her feedback, she takes the time to understand a writer's intentions before offering actionable advice on how to best align with them. She's kind, patient and a true delight to work with.

— Jane Rose Porter (The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal)

Hannah's edits are brilliant on the level of line, story, and deep subtext. All the writing she touches, she elevates. She'll take your writing to places you didn't know it could go.

— Jon Lindsey (author of BODY HIGH, House of Vlad, 2021)