Who am I?
As a child, I read voraciously. Later, in high school, the librarian set aside books she thought I might like, and I devoured them all. From historical fiction to science fiction, romance and general fiction, I immersed myself in all of these worlds. My love for the written word carried through to adulthood . . .
“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”
Arthur Plotnik
Author of The Elements of Editing
After graduating from high school in 1997, I went on to obtain a double honours degree in creative writing and English literature at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec.
For ten years or so afterward, I travelled around the world teaching English as a second language. During that time, I lived in South Korea, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Thailand and France. I then returned to Montreal for a graduate diploma in journalism as I wanted to explore the writing field from a different angle.
I later moved abroad again, teaching English in Saudi Arabia and then Egypt before working as an editor at Egypt Independent, the predominant English newspaper in Egypt at the time.
When I returned to Canada in 2016, settling in Toronto this time, I worked as a content editor for The Hamilton Spectator and the Toronto Star before setting up my own business. Today, I freelance for various clients, including individual authors, hybrid publishers and advertising agencies.
