Maya Fowler Sutherland – Editor

I'm an editor, translator and creative writing instructor with 15 years' experience working for Penguin Random House, Oxford University Press, University of Alberta Press, Media24 and other publishers. I'm also an award-winning, published novelist, which means I know the process from both sides.

While many of my clients are traditionally published, an increasing number are hiring me to assist them in self-publishing. Whatever your goals, I strive to help you bring your story and characters to their full potential while adhering to the highest standards of editing.

My areas of work include fiction, memoir and nonfiction, although fiction and memoir give me the greatest buzz. As both an editor and creative writing coach I've enjoyed working on everything from crime to YA, romance, fantasy, horror, thrillers, children's fiction, literary fiction and dystopian fiction.

Margaret Atwood once famously quipped that getting edited is like falling face-down in a threshing machine. I agree that it's a rigorous process, but I endeavour to have my clients emerge on the other end with the minimum of scrapes and bruises.