Want to get to know me a bit more? I’m flattered.

Here’s a little more about who I am and what I do when I’m not knee-deep in someone else’s fascinating words.

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Me in my attic office.

I’m a morning person.

I grew up in Aylmer, Quebec, Canada, and later moved to Toronto. After 6 years in that fast-paced city, I moved to Kitchener, Ontario—and the slower pace of life here seriously suits me!

Now, I’m woken up by birdsong instead of traffic. And even though I get to choose my own hours as a freelance editor, I live my best life as a morning person who gets to her desk at 5 a.m.
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​​My living room turns into a gym every day at 9 a.m.

I grew up doing competitive gymnastics! Currently, my fave activities include resistance training (especially with kettlebells), my yoga/meditation practice, and long walks around my city.

I’m also a certified yoga teacher. Thanks to the pandemic, I found out I like teaching online. I don’t see my introverted self deviating from that any time soon…

I love the arts, from abstract painting, to reading horror novels, to dabbling in art journaling. 

I secretly always wanted to be an abstract painter! And as of 2021, I actually started trying it out. I love dabbling across art forms. Currently, I’m focusing on art journaling and collage (I’ve also kept a journal of some kind since I was 12). And I do it all at my art desk. It's on the opposite side of the attic from my editing work station.

I also have a Bachelor’s degree in humanities (because I can never choose one thing) and a Master’s degree in philosophy. My thesis was a phenomenological inquiry into the embodiment of yoga and ballet. 

Other places to find me

House of Zolo Publishing
INDIE SPEC FIC PRESS

In 2019, I co-founded a small indie press, House of Zolo, with a few writerly friends. HOZ is our attempt to inject more speculative fiction with provocative, challenging ideas that push against convention.

Being one of the copyeditors at HOZ is a dream come true—I get to actually publish fantastic work that may not get a voice otherwise. ​Our goal is to promote writers of speculative literature, raise the profile of speculative literature worldwide, and offer readers powerful, forward-thinking stories and poetry. Some of our favourite areas: transhumanism, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, new systems, resistance, activism, queer perspectives, feminist perspectives, nature.
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Bookends Writing
COACHING & ACCOUNTABILITY

What if you could stay accountable to your writing goals, start and maintain a writing habit, and actually finish your first draft without all the self-sabotage?

As a sentence-level copyeditor and proofreader, I usually work with writers near the end of their writing process, once the foundations are set. But I started wondering how I could work with writers earlier in the drafting process itself. I teamed up with my partner, Jon, one of these “writes on command with no fuss” sort of writers (jealous!), and Bookends was born.

As a writer-editor duo, we strive to be the “bookends” that can help writers navigate their writing journey.
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