Katherine Hutt Scott, Founder of Best Writers and Editors, loves all forms of clear, beautiful writing. She worked for two decades as a journalist, including for major media organizations The Associated Press and Gannett, covering Venezuela, the Caribbean, and official Washington, DC. Since 2009, she has worked as a writer and editor focused on international issues. Katherine has researched, written, and edited all types of content, including annual reports, blog posts, e-books, promotional brochures, speeches, and website copy. She has broad experience translating technical material into simpler language, refining texts on topics from federal student financial aid in the United States, to micro leasing in Rwanda, to the impact of tourism on the natural resources of the Philippines.
Katherine has coached economists at the World Bank Group and top managers at the Inter-American Development Bank in good writing practices, and taught webinars on effective writing to entrepreneurs for the SBA’s Small Business Development Center in Washington, DC.
In addition, Katherine is a creative writer. She edited a book of poetry, helped a retiree with cognitive difficulties write his memoir on surviving brain cancer, and taught creative writing at a retirement community. She won 3rd place in the 2018 Bethesda Urban Partnership poetry contest.
Katherine has a Master’s degree in Journalism with Honors from Columbia Journalism School, a Master’s degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University. She is fluent in Spanish.
Katherine launched Best Writers and Editors in 2018 to provide sophisticated writing, editing, and marketing services for a variety of clients.