Recent Highlights

Copy Editor:

• Zelda Abramson and John Lynch, The Montreal Shtetl: Making Home After the Holocaust (Between the Lines, 2019)
• Shakil Choudhury, Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them (Between the Lines, 2015)
• Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother (Random House Canada, 2019)
• Harry Glasbeek, Capitalism: A Crime Story (Between the Lines, 2018)
• David Goutor, A Chance to Fight Hitler: A Canadian Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War (Between the Lines, 2018)
• 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)
• Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call  (Between the Lines, 2015) – winner, Aboriginal History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 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)
• 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)
• Lisa Moore, Something for Everyone (Anansi, 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
• 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)

Clients

Current:

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