Profile

Award-winning freelance publishing professional, specializing in the humanities and social sciences.

Offering services in indexing, proofreading, writing, editing, research, and project management.

Experience

Freelance Publishing Professional
2012 – present

Accurate, comprehensive, and reliable freelancer with focus on indexing and proofreading. Over seventy academic, trade, and textbook projects completed in last three years. Won 2014 Purple Pen Award for best new indexer.

Repeat clients include the University of Toronto Press, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, UBC Press, Westchester Publishing Services, Harbour Publishing, Douglas & McIntyre, Greystone Books, Figure 1 Publishing, and LifeTree Media.

Editorial and Production Assistant
Harbour Publishing, 2011 – 2012

Core member of production team for three publishing seasons. Performed indexing, proofreading, and image research and permissions, wrote catalogue copy, and created sales conference materials.

Production Assistant
University of British Columbia Press, 2011

Edited and proofread indexes, edited bibliographies and notes, and formatted manuscripts for copyeditors.

Journal Assistant
Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, 2008 – 2009

Proofread two issues of the 208-page journal, and held administrative responsibility for the book reviews and poetry.

Skills

Indexing, proofreading, writing, editing, project management, image research.

Education

Bachelor of Arts with double major in Creative Writing and Political Science, Arts Co-op, University of British Columbia, 2011

Indexing: An Essential Art and Science, Simon Fraser University, 2012

Professional Organizations

Indexing Society of Canada

History/Archaeology Indexers Special Interest Group