With more than 20 years of experience writing and editing for daily newspapers and professional associations, Nordahl brings a writer’s eye to copy, stylistic and substantive editing assignments. Besides his practical editing experience, he draws upon formal training in journalism and economics.

Nordahl applies his editing skills in a variety of fields but clear, concise, plain English text remains a constant goal. Clients appreciate Nordahl’s attention to detail and his ability to meet (or beat) deadlines.

He has demonstrated his editing skills in team settings with subject-matter experts to produce guidelines and instructional material aimed at wide readerships. University faculties have benefited from Nordahl’s assistance in crafting award-winning grant applications.

Alje spent 25 years editing, writing, and managing at two of Canada’s largest newspapers — The Ottawa Citizen and The Edmonton Journal. At The Ottawa Citizen, Alje was a city editor, sports editor, columnist and senior news editor. He has lectured at Carleton University and served as a guest editor at the University of Regina’s Journalism School.

Alje began freelancing in 1994. Since then, he’s written speeches for dozens of federal cabinet ministers and written and edited marketing material, annual reports, advertisements, and radio and television scripts. For many years, he was a senior speechwriter for Marc Garneau, Canada’s first astronaut and former head of the Canadian Space Agency.

Alje is an accomplished bridge player, winning a world-wide championship in 2007. He maintains that the problem-solving skills required to succeed at bridge are similar to those required to edit difficult and complex materials.

May worked for 5 1/2 years for an international publisher as an in-house editor and eventually senior editor, honing her skills in acquisitions, copy, and production editing for projects in mathematics, computer sciences, nuclear physics, chaos and bifurcation theory, chemistry, molecular biology, and business studies. With 7 years of previous experience as a university research technician and teaching assistant, May is especially competent to edit technical material related to microbiology and biochemistry. Since 1999, she has provided freelance editing/writing services to educational publishers locally and abroad.

May is also an avid (self-taught) graphics designer and likes to create humorous Flash-movies (álá Jib-Jab-style) for friends and family on special occasions. She currently holds the distinction of being the oldest snowboarder on the bunny hill.

Karin has worked for over 20 years as an editor in both the arts and sciences. She began her career in–house with the federal government and became chief editor in the Health Promotion Branch, Health and Welfare Canada. She left government to pursue postgraduate work in environmental studies and to start freelance career. In 1993, Karin began freelance writing/editing and soon was working for roughly a dozen government departments and agencies, several non-government organizations, and numerous corporate clients. She has a reputation for getting the job done, getting it right, and getting it in on time.

With undergraduate degrees in Biology, Geology, and English and a Master of Environmental Studies degree, Karin is comfortable editing a wide range of science or arts material for academic, business, and plain language publications.

When not editing, you may find Karin skiing, hiking, or kayaking, or wondering how the word "neezled"* ever became unpopular.

* neezled: a little drunk or intoxicated

Leigh is a graduate of Douglas College's challenging Print Futures: Professional Writing program. His writing and editing experience extends into medical, scientific, instructional, academic, private, and corporate realms. He has successfully applied his skills to technical procedures, H&R documents, in-house health and safety publications, employee handbooks, job descriptions, Web content, and curriculum development manuals for educators, to name just a few.

As a self-employed, freelance writer/editor with a home office, Leigh ponders about how to bring more variety to discussions around the water cooler.

Naomi has worked on words since 1990, when she began a five-year stint as assistant editor at the venerable Vancouver weekly The Georgia Straight. It was there, editing fine writers such as the late James Barber, that she learned to respect a writer’s style. She went on to pursue a Master’s degree in publishing and establish a freelance career as a writer and editor.

Since 1997, Naomi has been providing editorial services to a range of clients, among them regional and national book publishers, self-publishing authors, academic journals, corporations, and think-tanks.

When not thumbing through her thesaurus, Naomi can be found challenging anyone to Scrabble (alas, the dog doesn't play), planning a literary vacation, or reading fiction for fun.

Joan has worked as an editor since 1998 and as a freelance editor since 2002. While she edits all kinds of material — from cookbooks to online university course — she tends to specialize in technology and computer science projects, the natural result of 17 years as a software engineer. She honed her grammar and language skills during a two-year sabbatical in Japan teaching English as a second language. Joan is known for her proficiency in writing and editing, as well as attention to detail on matters of style.

Joan has a Bachelor of Science degree (Computer Science) from the University of New Brunswick. She has also studied editing, publishing, and indexing under the Writing & Editing program at Simon Fraser University.

Joan relaxes by yoga and hiking and is addicted to Sudoku!

Judith has more than 25 years of experience working as an independent editor, resulting in a well-deserved reputation for solving editing dilemmas quickly and accurately without going overboard.

Judith is skilled at copy, stylistic, and substantive editing, and has worked extensively on both small and large documents from several federal government organizations, non-government agencies, and corporate clients. One of Judith's many specialties is to present complex documents in plain language.

Judith has completed thousands of assignments in the last 25 years and never missed a deadline. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Saskatchewan, which has been supplemented by professional development courses. Judith has also prepared professional development courses as part of her activities with the Editors' Association of Canada.