Aubrey Penner | Proofreading Supervisor

Aubrey admits to a lifelong habit of annoying people by pointing out errors in books, signs and ads. How sweet for her (and sad for her detractors) that she now gets paid for it.

To help make her proofreading future perfect, Aubrey spent three years as an undergraduate at Point Loma Nazarene University’s Writer’s Studio tutoring in grammar and the basics of writing essays. While getting her master’s in English at Mississippi State University she was recommended for a Graduate Research Assistantship as a proofreader because of her minor in Linguistics. That’s when she fell in love with proofreading.

After she graduated and moved back to San Diego, we hired her. (It seemed the grammatically correct thing to do.)

• Born and raised in San Diego, yet has never surfed
• Studied in Ecuador; suffered culture shock in Mississippi
• Has an English Bulldog named Chester and a black cat named Lucifer
• Often reads a novel in one day
• “Under the Sea” is the most-listened-to song on her iPhone, thanks to her niece