The Editing Cooperative aims to bring together professional freelance editors and writers from around the world, creating a common meeting space and providing high-quality, fairly priced editing services to academics and other writers.
We started the Editing Cooperative as two editors - Kirsty Kay and Zachary Reyna - who shared similar experiences of living and working in countries where English is not the first language, but where academic institutions and publishers favor English as the primary mode of research communication. After a year working with people from across the world, the team grew to include new members with a wealth of experience in academia and editing - Panos Theodoropoulos and Uri Gordon.
Through sharing our resources, time, and experience, the Editing Cooperative team provides consistent, reliable, professional, and tailored editing services at an affordable and fair price. We work individually with each author to establish a fair price, meet their needs, and produce a crisp, clear, and native-sounding text ready for publication.
As editors, academics, and writers, we have specialized training that guarantees a professional and tailored service. Find out more about our individual backgrounds below:
Kirsty Kay
Academic Editor / Non-fiction Editor / Proofreader
Kirsty Kay is an editor, researcher and writer, working with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe.
With over a decade of experience in research and editing, Kirsty works with a broad network of clients across the world. She focuses on developmental editing, supporting academic writers in their PhDs and book projects in a range of subjects in the arts and humanities. She also teaches academic writing and has a particular interest in pastoral writing support.
Since 2015 Kirsty has been English Language Editor for Stasis, a bilingual journal of social and political theory based at the European University at St Petersburg. Between 2014 and 2017 she was co-editor of the Scottish Journal of Performance, and has since worked for a wide range of clients such as the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the British Museum, Central European University Press, Metropol Verlag, as well as for individual academics on journal articles, book chapters and monographs.
Kirsty’s Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow (2020) investigated questions of nation-building and cultural memory in a folk-dance revival in contemporary Hungary, and she has published on the topic.
Kirsty is a member of the Chartered Institute for Editors and Proofreaders, the main non-profit body supporting editors in the United Kingdom.
Zachary Reyna
Academic Editor / Writer / Proofreader
Zachary Reyna (b. Chicago, USA, 1988; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Univ., 2017) is an editor and political theorist working at the intersection of the environmental humanities, political ethnography, and literary studies. He has over 12 years’ experience editing colleagues’, students’, and clients’ academic articles, essays, and dissertations. From 2012-2017 he worked as an editor for the Q1 journal Political Theory (Sage Publications). From 2016-2022 he taught academic writing at Johns Hopkins University (USA), Tyumen State University (Russia), and Leiden University (Netherlands).
Zach is the author of How Law Matters: Reconsidering the Natural Law Tradition (2017) which was the first book-length study of the New Materialisms and law; “Aquinas’s Ecological Vision” (2018) which was awarded the American Political Science Association Best Paper Award in Foundations of Political Thought; “Toward a More Robust New Materialist Politics” (2020); “The Animality of Simone Weil” (2021); and “Law’s Stench: the Legal Ecology of Antigone” (2023). His current research pursues a political ethnography of multispecies utopian community experiments in the Global North. He has most recently finished a Marie Curie fellowship (2021-2023) at Leiden University and is currently based in Bremen, Germany.
Zach is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, the largest and oldest professional organization for freelance editors in the United States. As a writer and teacher of academic writing, he understands how difficult writing can be and he is passionate about helping others structure and convey their ideas as cogently, powerfully, and simply as possible. His time in Russia has introduced him to numerous brilliant scholars and writers struggling in English and he is committed to helping similar writers polish their writing for publication in English.
To find out more about Zach, check out his website.
Panos
Theodoropoulos
Academic Editor / Non-fiction Editor / Journalism Editor
Panos Theodoropoulos is a Lecturer in Critical Social Science in King's College London. His first book, The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialisation of Precarity was published in May 2025 through Polity Press. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Glasgow and has published in Work, Employment and Society, The Conversation, ROAR Magazine, Bella Caledonia, and Babylonia, among others.
Panos’s academic research focuses on the intersections of migrant labour, precarity, and social movements. More specifically, his PhD utilised covert ethnographic methods to enter various precarious workplaces as a worker and investigate the barriers that migrant workers face in relation to trade union participation.
Since 2017 he has been an editor at the Interregnum.live platform. In this role, he has proofread and edited hundreds of submissions by academics, writers, and journalists from various linguistic backgrounds.
Panos always aims to respect the author's voice as much as possible while helping foreground and clarify the beauty and ideas that are contained in the text. As a bilingual speaker of both English and Greek, he understands how to support the written expression of non-native and native English-language writers alike. Panos is excited to be joining the Editing Cooperative and looks forward to receiving your work.
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Uri
Gordon
Academic Editor
Uri Gordon is an academic editor based in Leicester, UK.