Marla Lepore 

Writer, Compulsive Editor

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Marla Lepore works with B2B clients and professionals to enhance their written communications, providing writing, editing and copyediting services on projects ranging from website copy, blog posts and marketing emails to magazine articles, columns and editorials. She has also assisted a variety of authors with conceptualizing, developing and writing business books that not only establish thought leadership around a unique point of view but are even enjoyable to read.

In addition to bylines in Training magazine and other trade publications, Marla writes the Muck Rack Daily newsletter and previously wrote New York Public Radio/WNYC’s On the Media newsletter.

Based in Nashville, Marla grew up in Shreveport, La., received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a concentration in Writing from Tulane University and completed the Pocket MFA in Creative Nonfiction. She has participated in the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (Literary Nonfiction) and the Colgate Writers' Conference (Short Fiction), is a member of the London Writers’ Salon and Nashville’s The Porch, and is a regular volunteer for the Southern Festival of Books.

Marla occasionally shares reading recommendations, music obsessions, miscellaneous observations and (primarily) pet photos on Instagram and Bluesky. For more book recommendations, visit the Marla Ink bookstore at Bookshop.