Recent Highlights

Structural/Substantive Editor:

• Gabriel Allahdua, with Edward Dunsworth, Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada (Between the Lines, 2023) – winner, Ontario Speaker’s Book Award, 2023; Mayworks Activist Award for Labour Arts, 2023
• Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman, and Bronwen Tucker, The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada (Between the Lines, 2023)
• Mary O’Connor, Margaret Watkins: Life & Work, online art book (Art Canada Institute, 2024)
• Ricardo Tranjan, The Tenant Class (Between the Lines, 2023)

Copy Editor:

• Irving André, The Mantle of Struggle: A Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas (Between the Lines, 2023)
• Gabriel Cholette, trans. Elina Taillon, illus. Jacob Pyne, Scenes from the Underground (House of Anansi, 2022)
• Cherie Dimaline, Empire of Wild (Random House Canada, 2019) – winner, Indigo Best Book of 2019
• Angel Di Zhang, The Light of Eternal Spring (Random House Canada, 2023)
• Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother (Random House Canada, 2019)  – winner, Governor General’s Literary Award, Nonfiction, 2019
• Margaret M. Keith and James T. Brophy, Code White: Sounding the Alarm on Violence against Health Care Workers (Between the Lines, 2021) – joint winner, Leo Panitch Book Prize, 2022
• Harold R. Johnson, The Björkan Sagas (House of Anansi, 2021)
• Julie S. Lalonde, Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde (Between the Lines, 2020) – winner, Ontario Speaker’s Book Award, 2020
• Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call  (Between the Lines, 2015; 2021) – winner, Aboriginal History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2016
• Karen Messing, Bent Out of Shape: Shame, Solidarity, and Women’s Bodies at Work (Between the Lines, 2021) – winner, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award – Women’s Studies (Adult Nonfiction), 2021;  joint winner, Leo Panitch Book Prize, 2022
• Shiri Pasternak, Kevin Walby, and Abby Stadnyk, eds., Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (Between the Lines, 2022)
• Neil Smith, Jones (Random House Canada, 2022)

Proofreader:

• Marie-Claire Blais, Songs for Angel, trans. Katia Grubisic (House of Anansi, 2021)
• Marie-Claire Blais, A Twilight Celebration, trans. Nigel Spencer (House of Anansi, 2019)
• Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Rehearsals for Living (Knopf Canada, 2022)
• Kent Monkman, Being Legendary at Royal Ontario Museum: Confronting Colonialism, Rethinking History (Art Canada Institute, 2022)
• Eden Robinson, Return of the Trickster (Knopf Canada, 2021)
• Anakana Schofield, Bina: A Novel in Warnings (Knopf Canada, 2019)
• Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf Canada, 2016) – shortlist, Man Booker Prize; winner, Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Award, 2016
• Ian Williams, Reproduction (Random House Canada, 2019) – winner, Giller Prize, 2019

Clients

Current:

• Trade publishers: Between the Lines, House of Anansi, Penguin Random House Canada
• Publishing consultants: Page Two Strategies
• Organizations:  Art Canada Institute

Previous/Occasional:

• Publishers: Frederick Harris Music, Goose Lane, Harcourt Brace, HarperCollins, Inanna Publications, Irwin Law, LifeTree Media, Pearson Canada, Stoddart, Talonbooks, Thomson Nelson
• Communications studios: bmir/Bryan Mills & Associates, gordongroup, The Works Design Communications (employee 1999–2004)
• Public inquiries: Ottawa Light Rail Transit Commission (2022), Mass Casualty Commission (2023)
• Organizations: The United Church of Canada, Communications Unit, General Council Office (employee 2004–2018); Azrieli Foundation, 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
• Toronto Metropolitan 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
• Toronto Metropolitan University, Substantive and Line Editing, 1998
• Toronto Metropolitan 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 (United Church of Canada) (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, Toronto Biennial, Wavelength, X Avant Festival (curious? see my musician’s site)