Qualifications and Professional Development.

• Fiction Editing Intensive Workshop with Caroline Adderson, Editors Association of Canada course

• Editing Certificate (post-graduate), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

Courses: Copy Editing, Proofreading, Stylistic Editing, Structural Editing, Document Design and Production for Editors, Grammar, Ethics and Legal Issues in Writing and Publishing, Writing and Editing for the Web

• Readability Tricks with Christa Bedwin, Editors Association of Canada webinar

• Poetry Writing Workshop with Fiona Tinwei Lam, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

• Fiction Writing Workshop with Alison Acheson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

• Creative Writing Workshop with Stephanie Maricevic, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

• Honours B.A., English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

• Business Diploma, Fanshawe College, London, Ontario

{Membership}

• Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders

• Editors Association of Canada

• Professional Editors Association of Vancouver Island

• The American Copy Editors Society