Nathan Fredrickson
Editor-In-Chief, Flint Hills Publishing
Nathan Fredrickson, Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), is a social worker, therapist, writer, and editor-in-chief of Flint Hills Publishing.
Nathan received his undergraduate degree in Humanities, Media, and Cultural Studies at Macalester College, where he studied literary criticism, philosophy, and media production, and served as a teaching assistant for introductory level courses on literary criticism and theory. He is also a master's level graduate of the University of Kansas's School of Social Welfare, with an emphasis on clinical social work, especially crisis intervention and suicide prevention. While working towards his Masters at KU, he also worked at the KU Writing Center as a peer consultant, providing editing services and collaborative consultation for a wide variety of graduate level research projects in both the humanities and sciences.
Throughout his education and career, Nathan has maintained a passion for the written word, intermittently offering editing services for Flint Hills Publishing starting with their first book, A Drop in the Night, and writing primarily speculative fiction and creative non-fiction, with published work in Tales From Spaceship Earth, a speculative fiction anthology. Nathan has also taught English as a second language to private school students in the Republic of Korea.
Nathan combines his experiences as a teacher, literary critic, and social worker to provide a unique editorial perspective for Flint Hills Publishing's authors. Drawing upon diverse theoretical foundations, from Victor Shklovsky's Theory of Prose, to the therapeutic framework of Motivational Interviewing, Nathan believes that "art is a means of experiencing the process of creativity," and that, through asking the right questions, an editor may assist authors in resolving their natural ambiguities about their own creative processes, and allow them to produce a work that is fresh, clear, and meaningful to any reader.
Although he adopts a collaborative ethos in his editing process and strives to support authors wherever their creative vision takes them, Nathan pays particular attention to the formal structure and composition of manuscripts, helping authors identify and strengthen core themes and critical literary devices in their work.
His training and experience as a therapist also allows him to break from a purely formal analysis - offering insight into how to portray complicated characters, and maintain a consistent, authentic voice in both fiction and non-fiction.