Rachel Taylor

Banoong Editing Services

Website: banoong.ca

I'm a copyeditor and proofreader with twenty years of experience. Please visit my website, banoong.ca, to get in touch, see examples of my work, and read testimonials from my wonderful clients.

I specialize in scholarly nonfiction, literary fiction, and autobiography/memoir. I enjoy working with a number of university and trade presses in Canada, and I am known for my work with Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors and subjects. Recently, I was honoured to contribute an essay to the second edition of Elements of Indigenous Style, by Dr. Gregory Younging.

My pronouns are she/her/hers. I am Iñupiaq (Alaskan Native) on my mother's side and settler on my father's. I was born and raised as an uninvited guest in the unceded territories of First Nations in BC. Today I live in beautiful unceded Stz'uminus territory on Vancouver Island.

I got into publishing at a young age when I joined Redwire Magazine as a self-taught copy editor. I became a freelance editor shortly after and continued to work during my undergrad studies, majoring in philosophy. Studying the critical analysis and synthesis of complex ideas taught me to engage deeply with texts of all kinds. I also served as a research assistant for Dr. Deanna Reder's project The People and the Text, helping to rehabilitate early Indigenous texts that had been neglected in the canon.

In 2017 I attended the Indigenous Editors Circle and helped to found the Indigenous Editors Association. In 2019 I completed the Master of Publishing program at Simon Fraser University. During my studies I enjoyed a work placement with Theytus Books, the oldest Indigenous publishing house in Canada. My graduate thesis, "Gathering Knowledges to Inform Best Practices in Indigenous Publishing," was based on this work and on original interviews with publishing professionals and Indigenous community members.

Please note that I don't provide sensitivity reads.

Community affiliation: Indigenous from within the United States

Languages: English

Roles and Services: Copyeditor, Proofreader

 

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