Editing & Writing Experience – Edified Projects

Copy editing (academic)

Copy editing, and stylistic/structural editing (literary, memoir, poetry)

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

we are medicine course by the Moose Hide Campaign

pando blog, writer/contributor. Sample: “Prevent employee turnover by investing in clear career progression pathways“

Indigenous Editors Association: Strategic Plan 2022

Destination Toronto. Samples: “7 Can’t-Miss Indigenous Events Taking Place this Summer” and “30 Iconic Toronto Activities to Enjoy with the Kids“

Owning Ourselves – The Mamawi Project / Red River Echoes

Proofreading

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.


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 Press}	^{University Press of Florida}	^{American Library Association}

Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers	Teaching Where You Are: Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies by Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller	Decolonizing Sport (Edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O’Bonsawin, Russell Field and Murray G. Phillips )
^{University of Winnipeg}	^{University of Toronto Press}	^{Fernwood 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 Press}	^{Canadian Scholars}	^{University of Manitoba Press}

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 Press}	^{University Press of Florida}	^{University Press of Florida}

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 Press}	^{Fernwood Publishing}	^{University of Alberta Press}

Environmental Philosophy in Desperate Times by Justin Pack	Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations by Daniel Macfarlane	Cultural Change among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century by Leila Inksetter
^{broadview press}	^{McGill-Queen’s University Press}	^{University 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 Press}	^{Canadian Scholars}


Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan Sinclair	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	Carving Space Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology (Edited by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker, and Madeleine Reddon)
^{Penguin Random House Canada}	^{Inanna Publications}	^{Penguin Random House Canada}

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)	Horses in the Sand, a memoir by Lorrie Potvin	Alha Disnii – My Truth: Words from a Wet’suwet’en Woman by Corinne George
^{Harbour Publishing}	^{Inanna Publications}


Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr	All 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 Canada}	^{Penguin Random House Canada / McLelland & Stewart}	^{Milkweed Editions}