Graeme Brown

Graeme Brown is Chief Editor and co-founder of Global English Editing, which he founded in 2014 with his son Brendan. He spent his career in education in Australia — first as a high-school mathematics teacher, then as an assistant principal — before moving into entrepreneurship and the editing world in his later years. He shares oversight of the editing team and the editorial standards on this site, and writes essays drawing on a long Australian life and a lifelong reader's instinct for the craft of sentences.

His editorial focus is the patterns and habits of writing that hold up over a long career — what older writers know about finishing, the slow craft of revision, and what reading widely over decades quietly teaches you about how language actually works. He brings a teacher's instinct for what makes ideas land with readers and an editor's eye for the gap between what a writer means and what arrives on the page.

Graeme is married to Jeanette Brown, who writes on the second half of life at jeanettebrown.net. They live between Cairns and Melbourne.