Editing & Writing Experience

Editing & Writing Experience

Copy editing, proofreading, and stylistic/structural editing (literary, memoir, young adult fiction, poetry)

Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan Sinclair

Winner, Non-fiction, Governor General’s Literary Award

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Audible, Spotify, and Winnipeg Free Press • One of CBC’s Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024
Reconciling History: A Story of Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould and Roshan Danesh

One of Indigo’s Top 10 History Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024 • One of the Toronto Star’s 25 books to read this season • One of Kobo CA’s Best Nonfiction Ebooks of the Year • One of CBC’s Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024
Carving Space
Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology (Edited by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker, and Madeleine Reddon)
Penguin Random House CanadaPenguin Random House CanadaPenguin Random House Canada
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Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel

Winner, Fiction, Governor General’s Literary Award
Alha Disnii – My Truth: Words from a Wet’suwet’en Woman by Corinne GeorgeDecolonization and Me: Conversations about Healing a Nation and Ourselves by Phyllis Webstad and Kristy McLeod
McClelland & Stewart (Penguin Random House Canada)Medicine Wheel PublishingMedicine Wheel Publishing
Restorying Your Story: Reclaiming Your Voice in the Face of Past Injustice by Dr. Michael GauthierHe Who Would Walk the Earth by Griffin Bjerke-ClarkeThe Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog by Liz Hammon-Kaarremaa with Coast Salish Contributors
Medicine Wheel PublishingFernwood PublishingHarbour Publishing
BEAST: A Novel by Richard Van CampFrom a Square to a Circle: Haida Basketry by Delores Churchill
Douglas & McIntyreHarbour Publishing
Prairie Edge by Conor KerrAll Roads Home: A Life On and Off the Ice (Author: Bryan Trottier, Foreword: Jesse Thistle, with Stephen Brunt)

National Bestseller
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling

Winner of the Montana Book Award
Penguin Random House CanadaPenguin Random House Canada / McLelland & StewartMilkweed Editions
This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands by Katherine Palmer Gordon with foreword by Dallas Smith

Winner, Jeanne Clarke Award (2024), Short-listed Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize (2024) 
Stations of the Crossed, poems by Carol Rose GoldenEagle

Shortlisted, 2023 Book of the Year Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards)
Shortlisted, 2023 SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski
Shortlisted, 2023 Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award
Horses in the Sand, a memoir by Lorrie Potvin
Harbour PublishingInanna PublicationsInanna Publications

Copy editing (academic)

Indigenous Spirituality and Religious Freedom by Jeffery Hewitt, Beverly Jacobs and Richard John MoonDual Diaspora:
Post-Soviet Culture in Search of Israeli Identity by Alex Moshkin
Putting Down Roots
Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community by Cheryl Troupe with foreword by Maria Campbell
University of Toronto PressMcGill-Queen’s University PressUniversity of Manitoba Press
Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties’ Scholarship (Edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides)Indigenizing Archaeology: Putting Theory into Practice (Edited by Emily C. Van Alst and Carlton Shield Chief Gover)Decolonial Archival Futures (Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey)
University of Manitoba PressUniversity Press of FloridaAmerican Library Association
Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers
Vol 1, No 2 (2024)
Vol 1, No 1 (2023)
Teaching Where You Are: Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies by Shannon Leddy and Lorrie MillerDecolonizing Sport (Edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O’Bonsawin, Russell Field and Murray G. Phillips )
University of WinnipegUniversity of Toronto PressFernwood Publishing
Métis Music: Stories of Recognition and Resurgence by Monique Giroux (forthcoming October 15, 2024)Introduction to Determinants of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples’ Health in Canada (Edited by Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Roberta Stout, Roseann Larstone, Julie Sutherland)Plundering the North:
A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity by Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay


Long-Listed for the JW Dafoe Book Prize (2024)
McGill-Queen’s University PressCanadian ScholarsUniversity of Manitoba Press
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Diversity Leadership in Education: Embedding Practices of Social Justice (Edited by Catherine McGregor and Shailoo Bedi)Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other
(Edited by Brittany Luby, Margaret Lehman, Andrea Bradford, Samantha Mehltretter, Jane Mariotti)
Mississippian Women (Edited by Rachel V. Briggs, Michaelyn S. Harle, and Lynne P. Sullivan)
McGill-Queen’s University PressUniversity of Manitoba PressUniversity Press of Florida
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The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization: Post-Orientalism and the Politics of Difference (Edited by Maurice Jr Labelle)Advocating for Palestine in Canada: Histories, Movements, Action (Edited by Emily Regan Wills, Jeremy Wildeman, Michael Bueckert, and Nadia Abu-Zahra, Foreword by Libby Davies)Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine
(Edited by Jeremy Wildeman and M. Muhannad Ayyash)

Named one of the 100 Best Books of 2023 by The Hill Times, December 19, 2023

7 on Calgary Non-Fiction Bestsellers list, February 15, 2024
McGill-Queen’s University PressFernwood PublishingUniversity of Alberta Press
Environmental Philosophy in Desperate Times by Justin PackNatural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations by Daniel MacfarlaneCultural Change among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century by Leila Inksetter
broadview pressMcGill-Queen’s University PressUniversity of Toronto Press
Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina (Deanna Reder)

Winner, Gabrielle Roy Prize 2022
Responding to the Oppression of Addiction, Fourth Edition (Edited by Rick Csiernik, William S. Rowe, and Gabriela Novotna)
Wilfred Laurier University PressCanadian Scholars

Copy editing and writing (business, blog, web, zine)

Action Canada Task Force Reports:

  • Resilient Roots: Policy Recommendations for Regenerative Grain Agriculture in Canada
  • Decolonizing the Natural Resource Sector: Implementing Free, Prior, and Informed Consent for a Sustainable Future
  • Waste Not: Unlocking Critical and Strategic Mineral Opportunities in Canada’s Tailings

we are medicine course by the Moose Hide Campaign

pando blog, writer/contributor. Samples:

Indigenous Editors Association: Strategic Plan 2022

Destination Toronto. Samples:

Owning Ourselves – The Mamawi Project / Red River Echoes

Sensitivity / Inclusivity Reading & Other Projects

Alicia has worked on sensitivity reading, book proposal reviews, Land Acknowledgements, and a definition of Métis for publishers like Greystone Books, Chronicle Books, Milkweed Editions, and Simon & Schuster, as well as directly with authors.