Mikaela Bell
I am fascinated with human language – the cool logic of grammar meeting the beautiful chaos of poetry. In high school, where I was president of the creative writing club, I studied Spanish, German, and Latin. I then went on to add Scottish Gaelic, Arabic, and French to my foreign language studies in college and afterwards, and it was through the study of foreign languages that I came to better understand my own.
After receiving the prestigious Flinn Scholarship, I studied linguistics and anthropology at the University of Arizona, graduating summa cum laude. My studies included a semester in Spain and then, after graduation, I went to Lebanon for nearly two years for my first stint teaching English as a foreign language. After returning to work in the United States for a few years, I went abroad again in 2017, this time to Grenoble, France, where I have been based ever since, teaching English, editing, and writing.
Mary Bell, PhD
I have a passion for the written word. I have spent much of my life reading, writing, and researching, and I love helping others achieve their best academic and professional writing. I have a widely varied background in academic research and writing. A first generation college student, I earned a B.A. in psychology with minors in math and computer science at the University of Arizona (UArizona). I worked at UArizona as a research specialist in social sciences at UArizona and at the medical school for several years, before I switched fields and earned a Ph.D. in English Literature, also at UArizona.
I taught composition and research writing there between 2005-2020. I have also worked as a freelance editor for graduate theses, interned as an editor at the UArizona Press, taken classes in digital information management at the UArizona School of Information, taught research data management to faculty as a postdoc in the UArizona library, and have spent the past year writing a memoir that was a finalist in non-fiction at the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards.
M & M Bell Editing 