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In 2021, my work with Inuit Art Quarterly won a National Magazine Award for Best Editorial Package.

Issue: Inuit Art Quarterly 33.1

Theme: Threads

An in-depth look at the history of textile arts in Inuit and circumpolar cultures, from Wallhangings in Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake), NU, to the embroidery traditions in Nunatsiavut, to the cutting edge of circumpolar fashion design.

Role: As Managing Editor of the Inuit Art Quarterly, I handled the substantive editing of all pieces in the issue, helped devise the theme, composed the packaging copy and worked closely with Art Director Matthew Hoffman to design and layout the overall package.

Collaborators:
Britt Gallpen, Editor
Michael Stevens, Managing Editor and Handling Editor
Matthew Hoffman, Art Direction and Design

Other Notes:
The lead feature of this package, “Threading Memories” by Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, was also nominated for Best Short Feature.

The Winning Package:
Click here to see a PDF of the full package

Some Sample Spreads:

The School of Cities is a solutions incubator for urban-focused researchers, educators, students, practitioners, and the general public to explore and address the complex global challenges facing urban centres. A living laboratory, the School leverages urban data and lived experience to improve policy and decision-making, and collaborates with communities around the world to make cities and urban regions more sustainable, prosperous, inclusive, and just.

About City Research Insights
City Research Insights is a policy brief periodical designed to link the urban research being conducted at the University of Toronto with the public, other institutions, and decision-makers. With this series, the School of Cities seeks to leverage their extraordinary community of urbanists and urban-oriented researchers to create a rich, multidisciplinary community of urban faculty, researchers, and students across disciplines and perspectives. In addition to facilitating interdisciplinary research projects, partnerships and funding opportunities, The School of Cities provide a hub for urban-focused interdisciplinary and collaborative learning.

My involvement
In 2022, The School of Cities contacted me to help enliven the packaging of their City Research Insights series, provide editorial support, and establish a blue print for future editions of the series.

Example issues:

Volume 1: Issue 6 | The Affordable Housing Challenge Project: Community land trusts as a tool for affordable housing provision in Toronto

Volume 2: Issue 1 | The Community Voices Project: A study into what residents value in Toronto’s inner suburbs

Volume 2: Issue 2 | The Global Migration and Health Initiative: Expanding equity, inclusion and access for migrants in Toronto

Diaspora Dialogues is a unique and treasured charity in Toronto that supports writers of diverse backgrounds through direct mentorship, professional development and securing opportunities to publish and present their work.

DD’s main initiatives are its mentoring programs, where they pair emerging Toronto writers from diverse backgrounds with an established mentor. In one, over six months the mentor and mentee work to hone the mentee’s manuscript and help submit it to Canadian publishers. Past mentors have included Rawi Hage, Lawrence Hill and MG Vassanji, and the CBC show Kim’s Convenience was originally produced as a play with the support of DD.

My most recent work for Diaspora Dialogues, who I have had the pleasure to work with for the last five years, is the program for their new event series, Hello, Neighbour. This series is extremely local, taking written pieces about a given neighbourhood , which were taken as inspiration by artists—poets, writers and playwrights alike—to create new work to be performed at the event.

The material for the event was, then, part event program, part literary journal. Since Diaspora Dialogues has been located itself in the Annex in Toronto for years, we took inspiration from a specific Annex landmark:

JAZZ.FM91 is a not-for-profit, community radio station in Toronto, and Canada’s only 24-hour jazz station. In 2018, I served as their designer and web editor while my colleague Matthew McKinnon and I redesigned the station’s website and their online editorial/content strategy, respectively.

Continue reading “JAZZ.FM91 Program Cards”

The Literary Review of Canada is a not-for-profit book reviews magazine based out of Toronto that publishes 10 issues a year. I worked at the LRC in various editorial roles from 2013-2018, and served as its Managing Editor and Art Director (and occasional designer) from 2015-2018, and had aimed to revamp the magazine’s story packaging while maintaining its established identity.

Continue reading “Literary Review of Canada covers”

In the summer of 2017, JAZZ.FM91 contracted me to assemble their annual report to the board.

Continue reading “JAZZ.FM91 F2018 Annual Report”

In November 2016 the LRC published it’s 250th issue. To commemorate the milestone, contributing editor Mohamed Huque and I were tasked with producing an editorial supplement that profiled what the LRC editorial group believed to be the 25 most influential Canadian books from 1991-2016. In the supplement, the titles that made the list are re-evaluated by some of Canada’s most renown writers, such as Margaret Atwood, Charles Foran, Adam Sternbergh, Niigaan Sinclair, Alissa York and more.

Continue reading “Literary Review of Canada 25th Anniversary Supplement”

In 2015, some colleagues of mine at Toronto art institutions and I decided to try our luck at recreational softball, and we established the West-End W.A.S.T.E.

We wanted a team identity that reflected both our investments in literature, and the fact that we were likely going to be very, very bad at baseball. So we decided to base ourselves around the group who withdrew from the state in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, who await for the fabled return of a 16th century Italian dynasty to overthrow the American hegemony.

Continue reading “West-End W.A.S.T.E.”

Continue reading “Miscellany”