Jennica Peterson

Jennica Peterson is a writer and editor with a passion for travel. She studied English literature and creative writing at Stanford University, where she graduated with distinction. She then traveled to some 40 countries, supporting her trips by working in national parks and teaching English as a second language. Her love of language and travel came together when she interned at Lonely Planet, Travelers’ Tales, and Via magazine. Jennica went on to work as an editor at Sport Diver magazine in Florida.

Since she returned to the Bay Area, Jennica has completed the Professional Sequence in Editing through U.C. Berkeley Extension. She has also worked as a contributing editor for Islands and as a freelance editor for Via. Her writing has appeared in several anthologies, Via, Sport Diver, Destination Weddings and Honeymoons, Islands, Garden Design, and National Geographic Traveler. She is currently an associate editor at Afar magazine in San Francisco.

Jennica specializes in proofreading and copyediting projects of all lengths, as well as editing travel essays and magazine articles.