Experience

Recent Highlights

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)
Tomson Highway, From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980–2010 (Talonbooks, 2017)
Julie S. Lalonde, Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde (Between the Lines, 2020)
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)

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)
Margaret MacMillan, History’s People: Personalities and the Past, CBC Massey Lectures (House of Anansi, 2015)
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

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)

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

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

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)