This is very old…maybe someday I’ll take a new photo of myself that doesn’t also include my children crawling all over me.
Bienvenue!
I'm Amanda. I’ve been designing, copy editing, and proofreading books since 2010. I also spent several years as a bookbinder in Vancouver and Montréal. I have an MA from Emerson College in Boston, where I studied publishing and writing, and a BA from Hobart & William Smith Colleges, where I studied writing and art. Right now I’m at McGill for a second master’s in Information Studies, so hopefully I will soon be working as a librarian.
I have been passionate about books since I was a child. I've always loved reading, both as a way to escape reality and as a way to confront it. And I love books as objects—the heft, the thickness of the paper, the experience of holding a book as we read. In the publishing world, I am particularly drawn to progressive non-fiction and children's literature, and I love working with publishers who aim to lift up the voices of people whose stories have been traditionally ignored, and who experiment with alternative selling models (as in, not Amazon).