👏👏👏 "Steena is master at copywriting and always goes the extra mile to ensure her work meets the highest standards possible.”
Put my analytical mind, intuitive creativity, and relationship-building expertise to work for your business or brand. I deliver dynamic copy that connects, sells, and serves with incredible business and story savvy.
I have eight+ years of copywriting experience, a broad scope of expertise, and have published three books of my own.
If your brand is innovative, bold, and has a unique mission — let’s make some magic together.
🌊“She blew the other four copywriters I’d worked with out of the water.”
⚖️ “Steena strikes a delicate balance between emotions, poetics, facts, and science every time.”
🎤 “Steena captured my tone and voice in just one conversation!”
If you're looking for a writer who can:
- become a creative partner and expand beyond a typical copywriting role
- write with professionalism and excellence
- generate authentic content that sells through education and story
- convey your humor and wit in writing
- take an unconventional, even irreverent approach to writing
- turn your spoken words, audios, podcasts, videos, etc. into fantastic written content
- provide substantive/content editing
...then we may just be a fantastic fit to work together!
COPY I WRITE INCLUDES:
- website copy
- landing page copy
- SEO friendly blog posts
- mission, vision, and values statements
- keynote talks and speech scripts
- case studies
- ethical sales copy
- executive meeting notes
- podcast show notes
- thought leadership content
- professional bios
- donation and fundraising solicitation letters
- email copy (sales and nurture newsletters)
- press releases
- course content and workbooks
- video scripts
- taglines and slogans
→ Don't see what you're looking for on the list above? Just shoot me a message and share a little about your project. I love out-of-the-box creative jobs!
✍🏻 Industries and businesses I have written for ✍🏻
High-end business consultants
Podcast hosts (podcast show notes and content strategy)
Startups
SaaS companies
Sales recruiters
Professional speakers
Online educators
College professors
Higher ed tech companies
Transformational coaches
Design firms
Content agencies
Online business management
Professional organizers
Finance, accounting, and investing firms
Allergen-free snack and food companies
Dental care practices
Holistic wellness practitioners
Legal service providers
Mental health, psychology, and therapy professionals
Sexuality experts
Musicians, artists, and theatre professionals
JUST WANT TO TALK IT OUT?
I work with many thought leaders, coaches, consultants, and service providers who love to talk and hate to type. I get them connected to their voice, telling their most powerful stories, and owning their expertise so that they can get connected to the right clients, colleagues, and opportunities.
So, whether you’ve got words coming out of your lips or off your fingertips, I can help you say them - better!
Book in a consultation or shoot me a message. Let’s have a chat!
🎬 Cut through the complexity, ignite action. That's the mindset I use when crafting internal communications content and strategies for my clients.
⭐ With 15+ years of corporate communications experience, I've worked for brands like Ford, Allstate Insurance and Delta Air Lines. My support often includes:
- Intranet content and management
- Employee communications strategies
- Communications channel planning and execution
- Executive communications and ghostwriting support
- Content strategy and development for video scripts, presentations and newsletters
- Communications channel audits and analysis
🏆 I have a 100% Job Success Score on Upwork and am Expert-Vetted, and I'd love to learn more about how I can help you achieve your goals.
Vanolira S.
Content Strategist | Thought Leadership & Executive Ghostwriting
Detroit, Michigan
$156/hr$156 per hour5.0 (25) 42 jobs $10K+ total earnings
Content is easier than ever to generate. Good judgment isn't. I help founders, executives, consultancies, and growing organizations turn expertise, research, interviews, data, and unfinished ideas into clear, credible thought leadership and strategic content.
My work starts before the draft.
I research. I synthesize. I question assumptions. I evaluate evidence, find the strongest angle, clarify the audience and positioning, and decide what actually deserves to be said.
Then I write.
I bring 14+ years of professional experience across research-driven writing, ghostwriting, content strategy, brand messaging, long-form content, and audience-centered communication.
My work generally falls into three areas:
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP & EXECUTIVE GHOSTWRITING
You bring the expertise, experience, interviews, voice notes, research, or rough ideas. I help identify the strongest argument, preserve your voice, develop the thinking, and turn it into authoritative content worth putting your name on.
This can include executive articles, founder content, newsletters, speeches, bylined pieces, and other thought-leadership assets.
RESEARCH-DRIVEN B2B CONTENT
When the material is complex, I help determine what the evidence actually means.
I research, evaluate sources, synthesize information, translate complexity, and develop long-form content including articles, reports, white papers, case studies, and research-backed thought leadership.
CONTENT STRATEGY & MESSAGING
Sometimes the problem isn't that you need more content. It's that the positioning, message, audience, narrative, or next step isn't clear yet.
I help diagnose that first—then determine what should be created and how the pieces should work together.
My background also includes published marketing and consumer-behavior writing, brand and platform strategy, long-form intellectual-property development, and hands-on business and operations leadership. That combination lets me approach content as both a writer and a systems thinker.
Today's tools can accelerate execution. The decisions behind the work still matter: which sources deserve trust, which idea is actually interesting, where an argument is weak, what the audience needs to understand, what should be removed, how the voice should sound, and what the content is ultimately supposed to accomplish.
That's the part of the work I own.
Much of my ghostwriting work is confidential by design. I don't publish client work unless I have permission, and I treat interviews, drafts, source material, voice notes, and unpublished ideas accordingly.
If you have expertise, research, interviews, data, rough notes, or a half-formed idea, send me what you're trying to communicate and where you're stuck.
I'll help determine what matters—and the strongest way to say it.
Nicholas S.
Ghostwriter | Long-Form, Human-Written Content
Ann Arbor, Michigan
$75/hr$75 per hour5.0 (6) 11 jobs $2K+ total earnings
I write long-form for people who need a real writer. Books, YouTube scripts, memoir, academic editing, personal statements. I've worked with everyone from grant writers to A-list celebrities.
YouTube scripts, especially true crime and investigative journalism. When I write a true crime or investigative script, the research holds up because I've done the real, expert level version of it. I teach storyteling and can write 10 to 30 minute scripts that hold attention end to end.
AI humanization, any length. I rewrite AI-generated content so it reads human and clears detection tools. Full books, long-form articles, web copy, marketing material. My graduate work focused on AI policy and information science, so I understand how detection tools work and how to write content that clears them while actually being good. If you've drafted a manuscript with AI and need it punched up and humanized, this is what I do.
Books and memoir ghostwriting. Past work includes a published memoir on addiction recovery, pain management, and developing emotional intelligence for justice impacted people and others navigating life with PTSD. I hold voice across long projects without it slipping. Trauma, recovery, faith, family. None of it scares me.
Academic editing. I'm a Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Instruction and Research. Before that, a librarian and faculty research assistant. I hae an expert level command over dissertations, theses, journal submissions, grant applications.
Personal statements and admissions essays. Past clients have landed top-tier college admissions. Tailored from scratch every time.
Creative work. Beat sheets and screen work. Reworked to producer specs. I have rewritten a crime-thriller trilogy that spanned multiple plot lines and character voices.
Background:
M.S. Information Science, University of Michigan
B.S. Information Science, University of Michigan
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