Recent Highlights

Copy Editor:

• Sick of the System: Why the COVID-19 Recovery Must Be Revolutionary (Between the Lines, 2020)
• Zelda Abramson and John Lynch, The Montreal Shtetl: Making Home After the Holocaust (Between the Lines, 2019)
• 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)
• Libby Davies, Outside In: A Political Memoir (Between the Lines, 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)
• 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
• Kassandra Luciuk and nicole marie burton, Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life behind Barbed Wire (Between the Lines, 2020)
• 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
• Tessa McWatt, Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging (Random House Canada, 2020)
• James Wilt, Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?:
  Public Transit in the Age Google, Uber, and Elon Musk (Between the Lines, 2020)

Proofreader:

• Marie-Claire Blais, A Twilight Celebration, trans. Nigel Spencer (Arachnide Editions, 2019)
• Roméo Dallaire, Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD (Random House Canada, 2016)
• Rawi Hage, Beirut Hellfire Society (Knopf Canada, 2018)
• Harold R. Johnson, Clifford: A Memoir, A Fiction, A Fantasy, A Thought Experiment (House of Anansi, 2018)
• Michael Melgaard, Pallbearing (House of Anansi, 2020)
• 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
• 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, LifeTree Media
• Organizations:  Amnesty International, Urgent Action newsletter (pro bono); Azrieli Foundation; 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, Toronto Biennial, Wavelength, X Avant Festival (curious? see my musician’s site)