Recent Highlights

Editor:

• Shakil Choudhury, Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them (Between the Lines, 2015)
• Marilyn Churley, Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son (Between the Lines, 2015)
• Harry Glasbeek, Class Privilege: How Law Shelters Shareholders and Coddles Capitalism (Between the Lines, 2017)
• Jane Kirby, Fired Up about Reproductive Rights (Between the Lines, 2017)
• Tom Malleson, Fired Up about Capitalism (Between the Lines, 2016)
• Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call, foreword by Naomi Klein (Between the Lines, 2015) – winner, Aboriginal History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2016
• Tim McCaskell, Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism (Between the Lines, 2016)
• Christopher Samuel, Conform, Fail, Repeat: How Power Distorts Collective Action (Between the Lines, 2017)

Copy Editor:

• Alain Deneault, Mediocracy: The Politics of the Extreme Centre, trans. Catherine Browne (Between the Lines, 2018)
• Tim Falconer, Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music (Anansi, 2016)
• Harry Glasbeek, Capitalism: A Crime Story (Between the Lines, 2018)
• Graphic History Collective with Paul Buhle, eds., Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle (Between the Lines, 2016) – winner, Wilson Book Prize, Wilson Institute for Canadian History, 2017;  Public History Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2017
• Alix Hawley, My Name Is a Knife (Vintage Canada, 2018)
• Tomson Highway, From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980–2010  (Talonbooks, 2017)
• Pasha Malla, Fugue States (Knopf Canada, 2017)
• Kevin Patterson, News from the Red Desert (Random House Canada, 2016)
• Alison Pick, Strangers with the Same Dream (Knopf Canada, 2017)
• Kerri Sakamoto, Floating City (Knopf Canada, 2018)
• Doug Saunders, Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough (Knopf Canada, 2017)

Proofreader:

• Roméo Dallaire, Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD (Random House Canada, 2016)
• Rawi Hage, Beirut Hellfire Society (Knopf Canada, 2018)
• Alix Hawley, All True Not a Lie in It (Knopf Canada, 2015)
• Margaret MacMillan, History’s People: Personalities and the Past, CBC Massey Lectures (Anansi, 2015)
• Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo, Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native History (Knopf Canada, 2014)
• Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey into the Lives of Others (Random House Canada, 2017) – winner, British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, 2018
• Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf Canada, 2016) – shortlist, Man Booker Prize; winner, Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Award, 2016

Clients

Current:

• Trade publishers: Between the Lines, House of Anansi, Penguin Random House Canada
• Educational publisher: Pearson Canada
• Publishing consultants: Page Two Strategies, LifeTree Media
• Organizations:  The United Church of Canada national office, part-time employee, Communications Unit; Amnesty International, Urgent Action newsletter (pro bono); Satipanna Insight Meditation Toronto (pro bono)

Previous/Occasional:

• Publishers: Frederick Harris Music, Goose Lane, Harcourt Brace, HarperCollins, Irwin Law, Stoddart, Talonbooks, Thomson Nelson
• Communications studios: bmir/Bryan Mills & Associates, gordongroup, The Works
• Organizations: The Change Foundation, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Heritage Toronto

Education

Certification:

• Editors’ Association of Canada, Certified Professional Editor, 2010

Degrees:

• Yale University School of Music, Master of Music (cello performance), 1988
• Queen’s University, Bachelor of Music, Honours, 1985

Selected Courses and Workshops:

• Humber College, Editing Indigenous Manuscripts, 2017
• Ryerson University, Indexing for Books, Journals, and Reports, 2016
• Tech Forum/ebookcraft, Toronto, 2015
• Digital Book World, New York City, 2014
• University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies, Information Architecture, 2002
• Ryerson University, Substantive and Line Editing, 1998
• Ryerson University, Copy Editing for Books, Journals, and Reports, 1997 (Eve Orpen award)
• Centennial College, Bell Centre for Creative Communications, Writing for Multimedia, 1997

Other Experience

• Writer: published in Musicworks (2004–2008) and Mandate (2007–2009; 2016–2017) magazines
• Literacy tutor: Dixon Hall (2015–2016)
• Social services front-line support worker (1988–1993): Metropolitan Toronto Association for Community Living, Reena Foundation, L’Arche Daybreak
• Music performance: Brampton Indie Arts Festival, Guelph Jazz Festival, North by Northeast, Pop Montreal, SoundAxis, Sweet Magic London, Wavelength, X Avant Festival (curious? see my musician’s site)