Editing is empathetic work. It is not about fixing the writing or the writer.
In developmental editing, my role is to help writers realize their vision and convey compelling truths about the complications of being human.
Literary: with select clients and as a consulting editor with The New Quarterly (tnq.ca), where I curate the Soundings series (2016–).
Scholarly: focused on the humanities and social sciences.
Sample works:
Native Immigrant: A Personal Journey Into our Home and Native Land by Carolina Echeverria (Agape 2025).
Going Underground with Betsey: a Deb Barndt multi-media memoir based on letters to the iconic educator, abolitionist and suffragette, Betsey Mix Cowles.
Your Roots Cast a Shadow A family memoir of cultural translation, identity and belonging by Caroline Topperman (HCI 2024).
Native Immigrant Dresses Social Media Documentary (2023-4) co-written & co-produced by Gina Hara and Cailleah Scott-Grimes. Artistic director Carolina Echeverria. English, French, Mohawk, Spanish. Reels highlighting a decade of ground-breaking culture work (2013-23) in Quebec and Chile.
A Lotus on Fire. Vickie MacArthur (2023). Spiritual memoir based on letters to her teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh.
Sean Left Quietly: A Father’s Memoir. Henry Blumberg (Lindiwe, 2022). The first of two Blumberg memoirs, this one traces the family’s inspiring search for solace after a suicide.
“Decolonizing the Gender and Land Rights Debate in India,” Catrien Notermans and Luna Swelsen, Religions 2022, 13, 254.
Education Pathways: Narratives of Female Academics and Administrators in Ugandan Universities, Draru Mary Cecilia. Doctoral dissertation for the Dept. of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage, Willy Jansen and Catrien Notermans, eds. (Ashgate).
Ritual, Media and Conflict, Ronald L. Grimes, Ute Huesken, Udo Simons, and Eric Venbrux, eds. (Oxford Ritual Studies Series).
Negotiating Rites, Ute Huesken and Frank Neubert, eds. (Oxford Ritual Studies Series).