About

What I do and offer you

I work for clients across Canada and around the world. I work in English (Canadian, American, and other) to provide the following services:

plain language
writing and ghostwriting
editing and proofreading
- developmental editing
- structural and stylistic editing
- copy editing
- proofreading
consulting and training

I am now available for contracts and look forward to hearing from you about your needs, goals, budget, and schedule.

To each client’s project, I bring a wide range of education, training, and experience, including the following:

University of Toronto, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature major
Centennial College, Book Editing and Design/Book and Magazine Publishing
Simon Fraser University, Plain Language certificate program
in-house/staff roles at publishing companies such as Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Harcourt Canada, Pearson Education, and Inhabit Education
clients such as University Health Network (UHN), TVO, Nelson Education, Oxford University Press Canada, Annick Press, Scholastic Canada, JUMP Math, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Insurance Institute of Canada, and the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Public Inquiry
projects
- ranging from patient education booklets and technical manuals to story collections, and from historical novels to memoirs
- with subjects from global politics and financial risk to poetry and writing advice
- with features such as plain language summaries and glossaries to maps

Certified Structural Editor
Certified Stylistic Editor
member of Editors Canada (the Editors’ Association of Canada)
member of PLAIN (Plain Language Association International)
member of the Technical Committee for CAN-ASC-3.1:2025, the Plain Language National Standard of Canada, from 2020 to 2025

Please contact me to ask for more details relevant to you, your communication, organization, audience, and goals.