Nancy Mackenzie

Located in Edmonton, Alberta, Bronze Horse Communications was forged in 2013 to brand Nancy Mackenzie’s sole proprietorship. In the business since the mid-1980s, Nancy is a seasoned editor whose in-house and freelance editing covers these genres:

• literary, with a focus on memoir, poetry, and fiction
• trade, with a focus on modern historical figures
• technical, with a focus on environment, agriculture, and energy
• educational, with a focus on First Nations, social studies, language arts, and teacher’s resources
• scholarly, with a focus on education

Nancy enjoys working with federal and provincial governments, national organizations, and municipalities on a variety of technical writing and technical editing projects, including white papers, policy, frameworks, what we heard reports, multi-stakeholder consultations, final reports with recommendations, toolkits, literature reviews, jurisdictional scans, and educational resources. 

After editing Nurturing Ethics in Governance: Taming Our Rascals Within, for Peer Diagnostiks (2019), Nancy wrote the Editor’s Foreword and at the book launch, performed two poems for the author and read from the foreword — quite a celebration of an important and timely book.

Nancy is the author of 6 books of poetry, 1 a collaboration by Five Magpie Press and 5 published by Ekstasis Editions, the most recent being Crisp-Maned Bay; 1 novel, Nerve Line;  3 children’s books, including Adventurous Albertans: The Women and Men Who Built this Province, a Grade 4 social studies textbook, published by Plains Publishing Inc.; and Peter’s Birthday, a children’s grade 1 textbook, published by Reidmore Books. She is the co-author of Peter’s Moccasins (1987), a children’s grade 1 textbook co-authored with Jan Truss, published by Reidmore Books. Nancy’s feature-length screenplay, The Chieftain, made it to the final round of the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project, sponsored by Paramount Pictures. Nancy continues to practise scriptwriting and poetry as well as trying her hand at young adult fiction. Let’s talk about the impact working with an editor can have on your writing endeavours!