Jen Burns

Jen specialises in crafting crisp, hard-hitting copy that inspires and motivates.

She loves storytelling, which she believes has the power to connect, whether that’s through writing a script, a report or a long-form article. She’s worked with clients from all kinds of different sectors, and her words have helped them to achieve their strategic goals and get readers to take action.

An Intermediate Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), Jen collaborates with our clients to copyedit their work and make it the best it can be (a former editor once told her she could ‘spin silk from a sow’s ear’). She’s also our resident grammar nerd, always having to remind herself that not everyone cares about the proper use of en-dashes as much as she does.

Her roots, though, are in journalism: at 16, she was a columnist for the Miami Herald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, and went on to study journalism at The University of Florida. Her articles, short stories and humour pieces have appeared in online and print publications both in the US and UK, including the Guardian, Slate, Stylist, Reader’s Digest UK and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

Outside of work, Jen likes running, playing cards and taking advantage of the UK’s proximity to Europe by travelling as often as she can. She also loves nights in reading with her fat elderly housecat, Günther, on her lap.