ELIZABETH LUKÁCS CHESLA

Your story. Your voice. My support.

I offer coaching, developmental editing, and copy editing services to both fiction and nonfiction writers. I especially enjoy serving emerging and neurodivergent writers and nonprofit organizations.

Recently published client projects

• Being Hungarian in America, Volumes I (2024) and II (2025), by Ildiko Antal-Ferencz. Edited two volumes of Antal-Ferencz’s English translations from her Magyarnak lenni Amerikában, Volumes I-III interviews with Hungarian Americans.

• Walking the Path of Love: Connecting to the Kripalu Lineage and the Core Teachings of Swami Kripalu, by Charlyn Reihman (2020). Book coach, developmental and copy editor.
• When Your Family Says No, by Laya Martinez (2022). Developmental editor.
• Practice Success: Steps to Building and Maintaining a Successful Mental Health Practice, by Matthew Mark Albright and Nathan Alphonso (2021). Developmental and copy editor, designer.
• Towards Humane Prisons: A Principled and Participatory Approach to Prison Planning and Design, International Committee of the Red Cross (2020). Co-managing editor, developmental editor, and copy editor.
• Changing the Narrative: The 2019 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (2020), Investing in Urban Infrastructure: The 2017 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (2018), and Challenging Conventions: The 2015 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (2016), Bruner Foundation. Developmental and copy editor.

• Changing the Narrative: The 2019 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (2020), Investing in Urban Infrastructure: The 2017 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (2018), and Challenging Conventions: The 2015 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (2016), Bruner Foundation. Developmental and copy editor.

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