A highly skilled book editor, I have over ten years’ experience working in diverse publishing environments, including trade publishing, literary journals, and digital environments.

Before working in-house as an editor with Scribe for four years, I was the online editor for Island magazine, special editor for the Review of Australian Fiction, and bookseller for Fullers Bookshop. With an Arts and Fine Arts degree, and a postgrad qualification in Editing and Publishing, I was also a judge for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for four years, and co-founder of emerging writers’ group Twitch, auspiced by the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre.

Also a published writer and narrative writing tutor, I am extremely passionate about the art of writing (and reading!) and have a particular love of finding and developing great narratives, both in fiction and nonfiction and across a broad range of genres.

Other than my list of private clients, major clients include Hachette Australia, Text Publishing, Affirm Press, Scribe Publications, UQP, and UTAS’s School of Humanities.

I'm a dedicated, versatile and skilled editor and writer with a lot of experience, a keen eye, and an open and progressive attitude. I'm thrilled that the focus is now towards inclusivity and diversity in language and in the narratives we both produce and consume. I have great author relations, a sense of humour (necessary in the book-publishing business) and a lot of prize-winning books on my list; for example, I edited Hope Farm, winner of the 2016 Barbara Jefferis Award; shortlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin award, The Stella Prize, the ABIAs; and longlisted for the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

TYPE OF EDITING: Structural development, copy editing, proofreading, manuscript assessment/evaluation, MS styling and localisation, transcribing, blurb and copy writing.

AREAS OF INTEREST: Fiction – literary and mass-market, but with a particular interest in speculative/dystopian fiction, science fiction, horror, alt fiction (yes, I still believe it’s a valid category) and children’s fiction and picture books. Nonfiction – memoir, science, history, art, food, and humour. I also love working with graphic novels, comics, zines, journals, and illustrated works. Or napkin scribbles.

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