Educational qualifications
BA in English, Cambridge University
MA in English, University of York
Training and professional development
2021: Fiction Editing, Niamh Mulvey
2018: Rewriting and Substantive Editing, Publishing Training Centre
2017: Practical Mark-up of PDFs, Society for Editors and Proofreaders
2015: Editing in Word, Publishing Training Centre
Languages
French (good reading level)
Experience
Thirty years’ experience as a freelance editor; five years’ experience as a teacher of English at secondary level and EFL; co-writer of Leaving Cert poetry textbook.
Services offered
Copy-editing, fiction editing, structural editing, reader’s reports, academic editing, educational editing, proofreading, indexing
Media
Books, journal articles, website text, theses
Subject areas
Fiction, literature, theatre, archaeology, history, memoir
Clients include
Tusla, Cork University Press, Dublin Review, Dendro.dk, Peter Lang, Blackstaff Press, Educate.ie, Educational Company of Ireland, Mercier Press, Routledge, Pan Macmillan, Pallas Athene, Oxford University Press
Also many independent authors of fiction, memoir and academic work
Examples of work undertaken
Education: Editor, New Geography in Action, Educate.ie, 2018; Editor (later writer), New Discovery (Leaving Cert. poetry textbook), Edco, 2014–22; Editor, Geoplanet, Edco, 2016;
Academic: Copy-editor, Imer, Peasants and Prayers, PNM (Denmark), 2017; Copy-editor, The Frozen Saqqaq Sites of Disko Bay, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2017; Copy-editor, Vallely, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Cork University Press, 2010
Fiction: Copy-editor, Broderick, Jack and Adam books, 2016–22; Proofreader, Dublin Review, 2017–22
Indexing: Walsh, The Pedagogy of Protest, Peter Lang, 2007; Balzano, Mulhall & Sullivan (eds), Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture, Macmillan 2007