Eve Morey Christiansen – Editor

I write back-of-the-book indexes for scholarly and trade publications. Working with publishers and authors as well as collaborating with other indexers has provided me with opportunities to write indexes in a broad range of subjects over the past 10 years.

I have a double BA in Anthropology and International Studies from Iowa State University. My indexing education began with a University of California course titled Indexing: Theory and Application and continued with Enid Zafran's Indexing Bootcamp and Advanced Indexing Bootcamp.

One of my most interesting projects has been creating an index for a book on indexing titled Index It Right.

One of the most frequent questions an indexer gets is "do you have to read the whole book?" I do read and sometimes re-read the whole book while analyzing the text looking for connections to cross reference and synonyms to double post resulting in the creation of an alphabetical map of the information. I consider the new reader who is browsing the index to see if certain topics are covered in the book as well as the reader who has already read the book and is looking for the location of information they already know is in there somewhere.