I’m listed as a professional editor at Editors.ca

My past editing work has ranged in scale from ten-page book forewords and thirty-page academic articles to three-hundred-page PhD dissertations. I’ve written a successful grant application for a SSHRC doctoral fellowship. And I have experience ghostwriting sustainability communications and design proposals for architectural firms: you can read more about this here.  

My editing philosophy focuses upon clear storytelling and lines of argumentation. I want to help you to express complicated and nuanced ideas as simply as possible while preserving their subtlety, in a manner that entices your reader to keep reading. Whether the piece in question is an essay, a design proposal or a work of fiction, my editing can help you figure out what you were trying to say, or let you finally say what you really mean.

From 2013-2019, I instructed Masters of Architecture students in writing, history and theory at McGill University and Carleton University. The skills I’ve learned through this process – particularly, a cooperational mentality,  supporting students through meaningful feedback so they can produce excellent work – have contributed immeasurably to my editing abilities.

If you have a writing project underway that requires editing at any stage, from developmental editing to copyediting, please get in touch! I’d be happy to talk about your project’s requirements, provide you with a quotation, and conduct a sample edit so we can determine whether my editing is a good fit for your work.  

About the 10th Muse

The name “10th Muse” is a double entendre. Editing can require a lot of repetitive rumination on how to say something more succinctly and powerfully. It’s also a guiding philosophy: by stripping away an excess of words, as in Anne Carson’s spare translations of Sappho (the real Tenth Muse of antiquity), sometimes more can be said.