the blend of a passion for words and a love of tea
our mission
The Editors Tea Club’s mission is to enhance participants’ personal and professional lives by offering a fun environment in which to share and learn, commiserate and celebrate, and improve our editing and business lives through education and communication.
We are at all times committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming community centered on the experiences of women, where editors who are women and individuals of underrecognized gender identities gather to support, encourage, and learn from each other.
about the editors tea club
Founded in 2021, the Editors Tea Club brings together a community of editors who share a dual passion: the art of refining words and the joy of savoring tea. What started as a whimsical idea among a group of editor friends has now blossomed into a community where every member finds camaraderie, learning, and a delightful brew.
meet the teaspoons
Erin Servais (she/her)
Tea Mistress
Jennifer Dinsmore (she/her)
Vice Tea Mistress
Jess Stampe (she/her)
Treasurer & Fundraising Task Force Coordinator
Tiffany Grimes (she/they)
Communications Coordinator
Heather Romanowski (she/her)
Community Co-Coordinator
Pam Eidson (she/her)
Community Co-Coordinator
Wendee Mullikin (she/her)
Membership Coordinator
Sohini Ghose (she/her)
Events Co-Coordinator
Jill Walters (she/her)
Events Co-Coordinator
Alicia Chantal (she/her)
Events Team
Molly Rookwood (she/her)
Events Team
Alicia Z. Ramos (she/her)
Communications Team
Erin Servais (she/her)
Tea Mistress
Erin Servais is an editor, educator, and community builder. Committed to helping editors improve their work and lives, she serves as the president and founder of the Editors Tea Club and a board member of ACES: The Society for Editing. Erin offers editor coaching services, has presented about editing and entrepreneurship for the Professional Editors Network, Editors Canada, the Northwest Editors Guild, and ACES, and has been a guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Media.
Her current focus is training editors to uplevel their skills using artificial intelligence. She teaches the ChatGPT for Editors course and blogs about AI reshaping the publishing industry at AIforEditors.com.
Jennifer Dinsmore (she/her)
Vice Tea Mistress
Jennifer Dinsmore is Vice Tea Mistress of The Editors Tea Club. She opened Jennifer Dinsmore Editorial in 2015, and is a full-time editor and proofreader who specializes in working with self-publishing authors. A certified proofreader through Editors Canada, Jennifer is currently a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) and ACES: The Society for Editing. When she’s not working or doesn’t have her nose stuck in a book, Jennifer enjoys painting, running, and spending time with her partner and their two rescue pets.
Jess Stampe (she/her)
Treasurer & Fundraising Task Force Coordinator
Jess Stampe is the Treasurer, Fundraising Task Force Coordinator, and resident Gumbo Spoon of the Editor’s Tea Club, as well as a member of ACES, PEN, and the EFA. She is a nonfiction editor with over a decade of experience working on books, dissertations, theses, and marketing materials at Just Ask Jess. She specializes in developmental/structural editing, proofreading, formatting, fact-checking, and citations in APA and Chicago style. She graduated with a BA in Communications and a minor in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming. Jess grew up in southern Louisiana, went to college in Wyoming, has a partner from South Dakota, lived in Michigan for a decade, and now calls Colorado her home. She is a voracious reader of fiction—especially historical romance, fantasy, urban fantasy, and young adult fantasy. She also loves to experiment in the kitchen, explore the outdoors, and hoard plants.
Tiffany Grimes (she/they)
Communications Coordinator
Tiffany Grimes is a writer, book coach, and Squarespace web designer whose mission is to amplify marginalized voices through unflinching and inclusive book coaching and design. She’s the founder of Burgeon Design and Editorial and she hosts “The Art of Self-Editing,” a free writing community, “Revision Alchemy,” an online editing course for fiction and memoir writers, and “The Burgeon Mastermind,” a six-month writing collective.
She’s got an MFA in writing from Hamline University, craves stories that delve into the deepest truths, and is obsessed with her cats. She can often be found hiking, backpacking, or curled up with a good book and a cat in her lap. She’s also the communications coordinator of the LGBTQ+ Queer Editors Association.
Heather Romanowski (she/her)
Community Co-Coordinator
Heather Romanowski’s mission is to guide and inspire writers to create magical worlds for their audience to get lost in. A few of her achievements are serving as a panelist and moderator at StokerCon 2022 and 2023 and editing Tangles, a 2022 Hugo Award Nominee in Short Fiction.
When she is not reading or editing, she is an avid gamer and gardener. She also dabbles in yoga, rock climbing, mini-painting, and baking. When she can, she indulges her wanderlust and visits as many historical sites, museums, gardens, and local haunts as possible.
Pam Eidson (she/her)
Community Co-Coordinator
Pam Eidson (iced tea spoon) edits nonfiction on topics such as dance around the world; diversity, equity, and inclusion in sport; craftivism; personal finance; and strength training for plus-size women. She worked in public health before earning an editing certificate from University of Chicago and changing careers during a pandemic.
For the Editors Tea Club, Pam is a community co-coordinator. She likes board games, penguins, embroidery, British quiz shows, whodunnits, dark roast coffee, strong tea, and feminist romances. She’s the social media team leader for the Editorial Freelancers Association and a member of ACES: The Society for Editing. She lives in Atlanta.
Sohini Ghose (she/her)
Events Co-Coordinator
Sohini Ghose (she/her) is an editor, proofreader, and author with over a decade of global experience working on books by indie and large publishers, university presses, first-time and bestselling authors, and a Nobel Prize winner. Sohini has lived and worked in three countries—India, the US, and now Canada. In 2012, she helped set up the Seagull School of Publishing, where she taught editing for a few years. Sohini is the author of English-language textbooks published by Macmillan and a self-help book published by Rupa. For the Editors Tea Club, Sohini (the resident caddy spoon) is Events Co-coordinator and part of the Fundraising Task Force. Sohini is also an active member of ACES: The Society for Editing; The Editorial Freelancers Association, for which she is a social media volunteer; the Michigan Literary and Theatrical Society; and the BookFest Windsor committee.
Sohini loves long walks, traveling, films, good Darjeeling tea, and art. When not lost in the world of words, Sohini can often be found crafting digital collages, and she had her first exhibition in New York in 2020.
Jill Walters (she/her)
Events Co-Coordinator
Jill Walters is a freelance copyeditor and proofreader, working on mostly nonfiction. She is the Events Co-coordinator for the Editors Tea Club and is part of the Fundraising Task Force. She also serves as Social Media Coordinator for the Northwest Editors Guild. Best known as “the #StetPet person,” she started the #StetPet hashtag in the summer of 2017 to bring a smile to fellow editors. She also previously served as the Guild’s board president and as chair of the Red Pencil Conference committee, and was presented the 2019 Guild Award of Excellence for extraordinary contributions to the Guild and the greater editing community. She is also a member of ACES: The Society for Editing and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She has a journalism background and previously worked at a small environmental nonprofit. She lives in Seattle with her longtime partner and too many houseplants. She appreciates high-quality tea and dark chocolate.
Wendee Mullikin (she/her)
Membership Coordinator
Wendee Mullikin has been editing since 2012 when she connected via Twitter with an author looking for beta reading. After editing part-time for eleven years, she established Purple Pen Wordsmithing, LLC in 2023 and is a full-time freelance editor of primarily romance and educational texts. She is a certified editor via ACES: The Society for Editing (ACES), and is a member of ACES and the Editorial Freelancers Association. Wendee also writes romance under the pen name Deelylah Mullin.
When she’s not editing or writing, you can find Wendee and her spouse traveling Michigan in search of historical markers, lighthouses, and waterfalls—and the ever-elusive Yooperlite. You can also find Wendee editing from remote locations while visiting her grown Spawn.
Alicia Chantal (she/her)
Events Team
Alicia Chantal is an editing consultant and owner of Fresh Look Editing, based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is passionate about helping individuals and organizations create messages that educate and empower. Alicia specializes in nonfiction copyediting and proofreading for business communication, human interest, health care, education, and academia (humanities and social sciences); she also has a background in public relations.
Aside from volunteering as a Teaspoon, Alicia was a member of Editors Canada’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion task force, served as co-coordinator of her local chapter for two years, and is currently the co-coordinator of Cloud Club West for the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading. When not at her desk, Alicia can be found spending time with her family, reading, or watching a good show. And walking. Often walking.
Molly Rookwood (she/her)
Events Team
Molly Rookwood is a freelance editor, romance writer, and bookseller in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She works primarily with self-publishing fantasy, science fiction, and romance writers, and she provides developmental editing, copyediting, and Jewish sensitivity reading through her freelance business, Rookwood Editing. Molly is the former co-chair of Editors Atlantic, and she has offered presentations on antisemitism in fiction for the Editors Tea Club, ACES: The Society for Editing, the Editorial Freelancers Association, Editors Canada, and multiple writing groups. Within the Editors Tea Club, Molly runs a monthly coffee chat about different elements of running freelance businesses.
When she’s not editing, Molly can be found writing Jewish romance, playing D&D, singing in her choir, debunking myths about corsetry, or delivering spontaneous Jane Austen lectures to anyone foolish enough to broach the subject.
Alicia Z. Ramos (she/her)
Communications Team
Alicia Z. Ramos specializes in line editing and copyediting queer genre fiction, particularly romance, romantic suspense, mystery, and various flavors of fantasy. She enjoys working with new and experienced authors alike, both those planning to self-publish and those preparing their work for submission to an agent or a publisher. She’s an avid reader and is grateful every day for the privilege of living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, even (perhaps especially) when it’s raining.
In addition to her work with the Editors Tea Club, Alicia is a member of the Northwest Editors Guild (board member 2019–2022) and the Editorial Freelancers Association.