Overview
Having published two books and with a third in planning stages, I relish working in the authorial/publishing space. I am an experienced copy editor (non-fiction and fiction), structural/developmental editor (fiction) and content editor (non-fiction). I have worked as a sensitivity reader, offering advice based on my life experience to authors who are writing outside their personal experience; and am building my experience as a diversity, inclusion and equity editor, reading academic texts through the lens of justice.
My work as a career teacher (proving my ability for endurance and fortitude for hard work) informs my relationships with authors: I provide detailed and specific feedback with respect, honesty and integrity.
I thoroughly enjoy editing because it blends my loves of creativity, lateral thinking and problem-solving with logic and order: this grounds me and promotes inner peace. With my life experience, my editing experience and my teaching background providing a solid foundation, I am well placed to offer creative and structural suggestions to prospective authors: the keepers of culture.
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Languages
Awards
- Best Poet, ARL Literary Awards 2018
Certifications
- Postgraduate Certificate in Modern Languages
- Bachelor of Education (Adult Education/English as an Additional Language)
- Diploma of Teaching (Primary)
- CELTA TESOL
Work experience
Pearson
Reading academic texts through the lens of justice, to ensure that new and updated tertiary textbooks meet contemporary standards for representation of inclusivity, diversity and equity.
Jacaranda (school education branch of Wiley)
Copy editing new-style English textbooks for use in contemporary junior secondary classrooms, addressing a diversity of knowledge and skill levels.
Nelson-Cengage
Content editing - German secondary school series.
Audio recording - ensuring clarity in audio texts of second part of the series.
Various government/private, rural/remote/urban, Australian/Turkish schools; primary, secondary, adult.
Starting in primary, I moved to Adult Education then morphed into Secondary. Specialising in Languages, I am currently teaching at junior secondary levels.