Ground Orchid Defined
First and foremost Ground Orchid is a consortium of like-minded and credentialed individuals who believe our gifts for a turn-of-phrase and real-world know-how should be used for the better good. We come together on a project-by-project basis to make sure we, here, match you with the most efficacious and compatible team members: a mix of compassion, interest, and skill, brought together for your unique work or project. We are development and copy editors, writers and readers, designers and artists, business professionals, and teachers. Ground Orchid works because we like one another, assess each project, and make sure your needs are met and exceeded.
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On the job
Need a professional editor who can help streamline your manuscript? Need a ghost writer to get your voice on paper? How about someone else doing all that pesky research?
We've got you covered. With more than a decade of experience editing, writing, researching, publishing, and teaching, we've got the chops, discipline, and on-the-job know-how to help get your project from concept to completion.
Academics
Need someone to help with your dissertation or college entrance essay? How about tutoring you through your ESL exams? Work with the top in the business. Ground Orchid's people are not only skilled editing and writing professionals with deep academic practice and success, we are also TESOL/TEFL certified. Our team can help you refine your English language skills, helping you and your work get from topic to transcript, paper to commencement.
Real-life
Worried your team here is all work and no play? Haven't lived enough to help realize your unique vision? Not to worry. Here at Ground Orchid we are real people. Our team has lived and traveled all over the world, and has read and studied deeply and widely. We have played a good deal along the way, too. Eager to share YOUR story, get it on paper, and laugh a bit? Get in touch with us. Meeting and working with people from all walks of life, is what we live for. We love to listen, and to help people realize goals while giggling and enjoying the arts and pleasures life offers us along the way. Come, see for yourself.
Our Word
At Ground Orchid we promise to make sure that you are listened to, and that you, and your work, are treated with respect and care. Here, we pay close attention to each author, each student, each person who works with us, believing that empathetic collaboration is the key to any successful project. We believe that our words, our thoughts, and creative actions sculpt the realities around us, and so, too, believe that as we sit with our works, talk through words, and refine our language, we consciously, re(de)fine the world of our own art, our own creation. Not all work is the same. No one individual is like another. Diversity in art is beautiful, and it is crucial. For without variation we are lost to the narrow and small spaces. We celebrate this, and so, with humor and humility we bring our varied skills and backgrounds together to advance creative and unique visions, like yours, in and of the world. Our mission? To celebrate a broad, creative view of the world through question and query, work and words, laughter and joy, you and us, and all of our partners working with us at Ground Orchid.
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Introducing Lisa Wagner, Founder at Ground Orchid
Working in the field for over two decades, Lisa Wagner has an MA in English Literature and Critical Theory, MFA in Creative Writing - Nonfiction, a BA in Art History and Religion, and is TESOL certified. She has worked on research projects, magazines, novels, long and short-form essays, non-fiction books for international publications, as well as directing city-wide festivals to celebrate literary arts. What do they all share in common? Lisa's love of story and how those stories make us who we are, together.