Suzanne Methot

Skilled developmental editor, structural editor, line editor, content reviewer, and sensitivity reader with 30 years of experience in a range of subjects and sectors.

• Indigenous editor/writer who works with non-Indigenous authors to ensure text accurately reflects Indigenous histories, experiences, and perspectives.

• Three decades of experience working with Indigenous authors to create authentic text that maintains author voice.

• Expert at creating compelling narrative non-fiction scenes, fixing/creating structure, deciding what information or narrative is missing, and deciding what needs to be cut.

• Expert line editor who can fix passive voice and create clear, effective, interesting, and well-written sentences.

• Specialist in equity, diversity, anti-racism, anti-oppression, and social justice. Undergraduate degree in History and English Literature. Post-graduate degree in Education.

• Former classroom teacher with experience creating/editing elementary and secondary curriculum,  textbooks, classroom resources, and educator guides.

Freelance clients include:

• Broadleaf Books

• Orca Book Publishers

• Scholastic Canada

• Scholastic U.S.

• ABC Life Literacy

• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Shkaabe Makwa)

• McGill University Participatory Cultures Lab

• University of Alberta

• Ningwakwe Learning Press

• A Space Gallery

• McMaster Museum of Art

• CultureLink

In-house experience includes:

• Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly (managing editor)

• Fuse: Art, Culture, Politics (editorial director)

• NOW Weekly (copy editor/proofreader)

• Vancouver/Toronto/Ottawa Computes (copy editor/proofreader)

• Anishinabek News (editor)

• Carswell/Thomson Reuters (editor/proofreader, Business Reference Group)

• SDI Media Canada (English subtitle editor)

Training and certification:

• Copy Editing I and Copy Editing II (Freelance Editors’ Association of Canada, 1991)

• Editing for Newsletters (Freelance Editors’ Association of Canada, 1992)

• Writing for Magazines (George Brown College, 1993)