For more than 20 years, I’ve worked as an editor, writing coach, award-winning author, journalist, and communications advisor with experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. I’m highly skilled at all types of editing, from developmental to proofreading, with expertise in both fiction and non-fiction of all kinds. I’m familiar with leading style guides, including CMoS, APA, Canadian Press, AMA, and MLA, and I'm a quick study of house styles and their accompanying spelling lists. I stay current on inclusive language conventions, and I'm comfortable working with a variety of applications, including Google Suite, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Acrobat. As an editor, I've worked on dozens of research proposals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I've brought my careful eye to the report filings and academic journal contributions generated by successful bids. I've also edited content for webinars, often focused on training for trainers, with projects that include participant guides and PowerPoint presentations. I have considerable experience editing business case studies and their accompanying teaching notes for MBA courses, and I've contributed to other educational materials as well, including those targeting young readers. More generally, I've edited technical documents, reports to government, white papers, internal and external reviews, theses and student papers, journalism, memoirs, children's books, and adult fiction (mystery, fantasy, magical realism, literary, science fiction, and horror). Specific clients include or have included publishers like Inhabit Education Books, Radiant Press, Guernica Editions, and Duke University Press; organizations and institutions like the US-China Business Council, the American Institutes for Research, Ivey Business School, and Toronto Metropolitan University; and businesses like S&S Activewear and Mme L'Ovary. I've also worked with individual business people, academics, students, and self-publishing authors, and I've helped multiple writers with projects that have gone on to be published by traditional presses or in academic journals. As a writer, I’ve written copy for small-business websites, and my journalism has been published in outlets big and small, from obscure community newspapers to major outlets, including The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. I’m also an award-winning author. My books include The Secret Life of Fission (Oberon, 2013; Danuta Gleed Literary Award winner), A Plea for Constant Motion (Anansi, 2017; ReLit Awards finalist), The High-Rise in Fort Fierce (Goose Lane Editions, 2018; Ottawa Book Awards and ReLit Awards finalist), and The Voyageur (Swift Press, 2024; currently undergoing translation by Éditions Globe for the market in France). Individually, a little more than 20 of my short stories have been published online as well as in magazines and journals, and I also have experience adjudicating grants and awards.
Developmental and substantive editing, copy editing, and proofreading; writing and copywriting; manuscript evaluations; editorial consulting.
Editors Canada / Editors Association of Canada (EAC)
