Lisa McLendon runs the Bremner Editing Center at the University of Kansas journalism school, where she also teaches editing, writing and grammar. She was formerly a copy editor at the Wichita Eagle, and launched her journalism career on the copy desk at the Denton Record-Chronicle after earning a Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics from the University of Texas. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Follow her on Twitter at @MadamGrammar.