A scribe for hire… An editor armed with red pen…

Thanks for stopping by. I am a freelance writer, editor and occasional checker of facts. By day I do communications for a major Toronto hospital network—think newsletters, annual reports and web content—and flex my literary muscles running a staff book club. I’m always open to new editing and writing work. If you’re looking for an editor or writer for your next project, please take a look at my services page for more details, or just contact me directly. You can also see some of my past work in the writing section of this site.

I have slogged away in the magazine trenches as head fact-checker for Fashion magazine and an editorial intern at the Walrus magazine. Over the years, I’ve set up shop in Africa, Asia and Europe with various stints studying, working and volunteering. These days I prefer to keep myself bolted firmly to the ground in Toronto, where I’m just another prairie transplant, still secretly pining away for the west . I’m fluent in Russian, and speak some Hebrew and French; I can also order a milk tea in Mandarin . And for those who like to know these things, yes, I hold all the requisite pieces of paper certifying me to blather about literature and philosophy (in no particular order).

In addition to freelance work, I’m currently working on a project on Soviet Jewish immigration from 1967 to about 1981 , during which time a quarter-million people managed to leave the USSR (including my own family who emigrated when I was a baby). Many were jailed, interrogated and otherwise harassed for merely requesting an exit visa; once they left, there was no going back. I have been interviewing people who came to Canada during this period and I will be publishing some of that material on this site .