Editorial Freelancers Association
Member Profile
Grace Bialecki
Bialecki Creative
Grace Bialecki is a writer, editor, and workshop facilitator. She specializes in developmental and line edits on works of fiction and poetry. When working with clients, she uses her personal experience as a writer to connect with their challenges and empower them to see their work as an editor does.
Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Catapult, Barrelhouse, and Epiphany Magazine where she was a monthly columnist. She is a teacher at Hugo House, DOROT, The Gardiner Library, and a poetry mentor at The Bridge.
In 2018, she co-founded Thirst, an art and storytelling series with Alex Brook Lynn. Her collection of poetry Youth was published in 2019, and her novel Purple Gold (ANTIBOOKCLUB) the following year.
Grace is a graduate of Paris Writers’ Workshop, The Power of Awareness training, as well as a ten-day Vipassana Meditation Course. She will complete her Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification through the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley in 2025. Bialecki holds a BA in Literature from Pomona College.
Click here for her full publication list.
“Grace’s editing is superb. More than that, her practice of talking through composition and form is unparalleled. She helped bring my novel to the next level and has subsequently worked with me with essays and short stories. She has a keen eye for high level structuring and knows when to move a paragraph, chapter, or sentence to make a piece even stronger.” — Susan Skakel, MFA Candidate at Oxford University
“Grace has two things which are difficult to find in other poetry advisors — one is an honest assessment of the flaws in a poem, the other is suggesting changes not just in style but approach which lead to transforming good poems into great ones. It’s like magic.” – Richard Simonds, Poet
NEW PALTZ, NY
US
Email: gb@graciebialecki.com
https://www.graciebialecki.com/
Years in the field: 10
Years freelancing: 5
Grace Bialecki
Grace Bialecki is a writer, editor, and workshop facilitator. She specializes in developmental and line edits on works of fiction and poetry. When working with clients, she uses her personal experience as a writer to connect with their challenges and empower them to see their work as an editor does.
Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Catapult, Barrelhouse, and Epiphany Magazine where she was a monthly columnist. She is a teacher at Hugo House, DOROT, The Gardiner Library, and a poetry mentor at The Bridge.
In 2018, she co-founded Thirst, an art and storytelling series with Alex Brook Lynn. Her collection of poetry Youth was published in 2019, and her novel Purple Gold (ANTIBOOKCLUB) the following year.
Grace is a graduate of Paris Writers’ Workshop, The Power of Awareness training, as well as a ten-day Vipassana Meditation Course. She will complete her Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification through the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley in 2025. Bialecki holds a BA in Literature from Pomona College.
Click here for her full publication list.
“Grace’s editing is superb. More than that, her practice of talking through composition and form is unparalleled. She helped bring my novel to the next level and has subsequently worked with me with essays and short stories. She has a keen eye for high level structuring and knows when to move a paragraph, chapter, or sentence to make a piece even stronger.” — Susan Skakel, MFA Candidate at Oxford University
“Grace has two things which are difficult to find in other poetry advisors — one is an honest assessment of the flaws in a poem, the other is suggesting changes not just in style but approach which lead to transforming good poems into great ones. It’s like magic.” – Richard Simonds, Poet
