Recent Highlights

Copy Editor:

• 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)
• 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
• Alexandra Morton, Not on My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon (Random House Canada, 2021)
• 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 (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

Clients

Current:

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

Previous/Occasional:

• 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

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)