Experience

I have three years of experience editing for the online literary magazine The Ex-Puritan, publishing eight essays per year across four issues. Through this work, I have assisted many non-fiction writers in shaping their essay into its best possible form. Working with a variety of writers has sharpened my ability to help authors achieve their specific writing goals. It has also allowed me to study the essay form in-depth and analyze the craft elements that make an essay stand out.

Prior to this, I gained experience providing feedback to dozens of my classmates on their fiction and non-fiction writing during my BFA at the University of Victoria’s Creative Writing program. Since graduation, I have continued to provide feedback for classmates, which has kept my editing skills sharp in a variety of genres.

My experience drafting a completed manuscript of my first book, a memoir-in-essays entitled BODYMAGIC: A NEUROQUEER ANATOMY OF MY TRANS DISABLED BODY, has helped me to understand book editing from the perspective of a writer. As I have crafted my own intimate and very personal story, I have developed an appreciation for the nuance, sensitivity, and care an editor must embody when working with an author, especially within the genre of memoir. I know that writing memoir can involve excavating painful truths from one’s story that can be triggering. With this fact in mind, I edit memoir with a lot of tenderness and consideration for the impact of my edits on the author.

You can get a sense of my work by reading the essays I have edited for The Ex-Puritan: