Meet the Mudditors
"Just like to say that one of the reasons I choose to send things to MuddyUm among others, is all the great support and suggestions from editors like you. It teaches me a lot about my craft." - Satisfied MuddyUm Writer
Amy Sea, AKA Amy Culberg
Co-Editor
Amy Sea is a writer who has taught elementary education, swimming, and writing. Her goal in life is to transform her repressed anger into life-altering humor and she'd like to take as many of you down with her as she can. Her mantra is if you can find the punchline, you're winning.
Paul Hossfield AKA BO Face
Word Sniper
AKA Baskerville Old Face, AKA Baskerville, AKA Quasimodo, AKA PaulHoss. I change my name like I change my t-shirt because why not?
If I leave a lot of asterisks it's because I care.
Now* just* look at that face. Even I would trust me!
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Rosalie Berg
Co-editor
Rosalie Berg decided to start writing because a Barnes & Noble cashier told her she had a writer's name. This occurred roughly two decades ago--well before she was married and mothered. Rosalie Berg is also a master procrastinator, but here we are. When not chasing around her two boys and wily water dog, she can be found online shopping, er writing, at local coffee shops.
Susan Brearley
Editor-in-Chief
Susan Brearley is the EIC for the fastest growing comedy publication on Medium.com. She works with hundreds of humorists and comedy writers around the world, and with a hand-picked team of editors. She is a visionary, entrepreneur, sailor, coach, and luminary. Founder of the Garden of Neuro Institute, an incubator space for women’s voice, agency and leadership. She’s been writing comedy since the third grade.
Toni Crowe
Professional Cat Herder
Toni Crowe is a skilled storyteller who escaped corporate America to pursue her dream of writing whatever she wanted, whenever she chose. She is an award-winning multi-book author. Being an introverted degreed engineer who forced herself to become an executive extrovert gives Toni a unique variegated world-view. Toni takes real-life lessons and presents them in a way readers will not forget. Her dark humor shines like flickering candlelight in the night. Humor is one of her most persuasive tools.
Gary Chapin
Official Accordionist of the MuddyUm Empire
Author of 126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education (Educating for Good), an entertaining and provocative book about education that also happens to be true. I write a ton of humor and poetry. I write all the time. I have always written. I play accordion. I have an extraordinary ability to be fascinated by things. People I trust tell me I am funny.
Rebecca A. Barrett
Co-editor
Rebecca is half of a two mom household on the adventure of raising a tiny human. She’s an editor for the Garden of Neuro and a secret agent for MuddyUm. Also the proud owner of useless knowledge about arcane lighting instruments and a vast amount of production management experience, she now enjoys writing whenever she can catch a moment to herself.
Holly J. See
Editor Fairy
For more than four decades, the editor fairy was a serious worker caterpillar at a national healthcare consulting firm. She remains surprised to have metamorphosed into a swoopy Mudditor moth. Someone has to be least funny. Holly enjoys writing nonsense and song parodies, reading fiction, interacting with her poodle, and dancing around the house to Grand Funk & Stevie Ray & The Tractors & Cake.
Andrew Rodwin
Tech magnate/magnet
Andrew Rodwin searches for unique perspectives. Sometimes, by standing on his head. Always ready to turn the world upside down for that perfect comedic bite, Andrew loves political, sports, and STEM humor. Also yoga, rowing, reading everything within reach, volunteering as a furniture mover. his golden retriever, and blueberry pie. Not in that order, the golden retriever first!
Stephanie Wilson
Abducted. HELP!!!
Stephanie Wilson was having a fine life in Northern Virginia—coaching, hiking, drawing, waving goodbye to her kids as they moved off into the world—but then she got abducted by aliens. Now she lives in some place called MuddyUm, where she laughs, edits, and deals with the extraterrestrials listed here. It’s fun. It's on a boat of some sort. She misses Earth.
A Strong Woman Weak
Purveyor of Sarcasm
A Strong Woman Weak is affectionately known as ASWW to her close virtual friends. She is a part-time writer, real-time conversation editor and real-life purveyor of sarcasm.She lives with her kids and bigger-than-life cat, which is often the subject of pictures in her dating profiles, much to her suitors’ chagrin. She won’t do Dungeons and Dragons with you. She walks around with one shoe and she can’t bake a Martha Stewart cake.