From 1985 to 1989, she served on the editorial board of
The Little Magazine, a poetry magazine. She is a former managing editor and a former consulting editor at
Tor Books. She is also one of the regular instructors for the writing workshop Viable Paradise. and global political events. She is the first recorded Internet editor to practice
disemvoweling of the entire text of offensive posts; the term itself was coined in a
Making Light post by Arthur Hlavaty. She was the first lead comments moderator at the popular blog
Boing Boing when it reopened its comments feature in 2007. In June 2008, a controversy on Boing Boing concerning the "unpublication" of all articles that mention sex columnist
Violet Blue generated criticism of some of her moderation techniques, including disemvowelment. ==Personal life==