Stephanie Fysh

I’ve been editing and proofreading fiction, textbooks, scholarly publications, art books, and general nonfiction for over 25 years. My clients include established publishers and independent authors who are self-publishing or seeking contracts. Authors have called me “a true professional, incredibly thorough” and “the sweetest copy editor alive.”

My expertise in fiction is in manuscript evaluation (for which I am not currently taking new clients), stylistic editing, and copy editing. I work in most genres but am actively interested in long-form fantasy and science fiction.  My services include world bible (series bible) creation and maintenance.

As a stylistic editor, copy editor, proofreader, and back-of-the-book indexer of nonfiction, I have considerable experience in social sciences, biography, history, current events, popular science, exhibition catalogues, and books in translation. With many a college and university textbook under my belt — in sociology, psychology,  management, communication, biology, anthropology, and more — I am also interested in supporting faculty who are creating textbooks without a publisher. 

For many years, alongside freelancing, I taught copy editing and proofreading in and co-coordinated the Toronto Metropolitan University Publishing certificate program. I am also a former director and chair of the Book and Periodical Council, an umbrella group for Canadian book and magazine publishing associations.

• BA, English, University of Waterloo
• MA and PhD, English, University of Toronto
• coursework, Ryerson University Publishing certificate program
• BSc (in progress, as time permits), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology/Jewish Studies, University of Toronto