Experience

Recent Highlights

David Albertyn, Undercard (House of Anansi, 2019)
Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest (Random House Canada, 2019)
Cherie Dimaline, Empire of Wild (Random House Canada, 2019) – winner, Indigo Best Book of 2019
Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother (Random House Canada, 2019) – winner, Governor General’s Literary Award, Nonfiction, 2019
Alix Hawley, My Name Is a Knife (Vintage Canada, 2018)
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)
Alexandra Morton, Not on My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon (Random House Canada, 2021)
Jo Owens, A Funny Kind of Paradise (Random House Canada, 2021)
Shiri Pasternak, Kevin Walby, and Abby Stadnyk, eds., Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (Between the Lines, 2022)

Marie-Claire Blais, Songs for Angel, trans. Katia Grubisic (Arachnide Editions, 2021)
Marie-Claire Blais, A Twilight Celebration, trans. Nigel Spencer (Arachnide Editions, 2019)
Rawi Hage, Beirut Hellfire Society (Knopf Canada, 2018)
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
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

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

Publishers: Frederick Harris Music, Goose Lane, Harcourt Brace, HarperCollins, Irwin Law, LifeTree Media, Pearson Canada, Stoddart, Talonbooks, Thomson Nelson
Communications studios: bmir/Bryan Mills & Associates, gordongroup, The Works Design Communications (employee 1999–2004)
Organizations: The United Church of Canada, Communications Unit, General Council Office (employee 2004–2018); The Change Foundation; Children’s Aid Society of Toronto; Heritage Toronto

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

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)