Bloom Academic Editing is run by Megan Solon, PhD. Megan has authored/co-authored 45 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, co-edited/authored two journal special issues and three books.

Megan has also served on the editorial boards for journals such as Cambridge University Press’s Studies in Second Language Acquisition and was co-editor of the John Benjamins book series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics for 5 years.

In addition to academic publishing experience, Megan has worked for Indiana University as a proposal development specialist. In this role, she consulted with faculty and graduate students on the development of extramural grant proposals to federal agencies and private foundations including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Library Association, the Department of Defense, the Ford Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She was involved firsthand in the development of proposals seeking more than $42 million in external support, and these proposals were successful in bringing in nearly $10.5 million in external funding.

Although Megan’s training and expertise is in linguistics, Spanish, and second language acquisition, she has contributed to publications and proposals in a wide range of fields including biology, dentistry, business, medicine, physical therapy, education, and public health and has academic editing experience across a wide variety of disciplines.