Helen Hey
I am a trained editor and indexer with a decade of experience. After many years working on English Language Training textbooks at OUP Canada, I shifted to freelance work and haven’t looked back. I am experienced with textbooks, corporate and educational websites, tabletop RPGs, and academic projects. I am especially interested in working on more indexes, so please reach out if you have a project that needs one.
I love supporting clients so they can achieve the best version of their project. I strongly believe that collaboration and empathy are key components for a successful edit or index, which is demonstrated by my testimonials. I also love learning from and with my clients. My personal interests include literature, ecology, tabletop RPGs, geology, gardening, genre fiction, cooking, video games, history, and folklore.
Experience
Qualifications
- 2.5 years of project management, editing, and indexing – Colborne Communications
- 6 years of project management and editing – OUP Canada
- Editing Essentials certificate – Editors Canada
- Publishing Certificate – Toronto Metropolitan University
- Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature (major) and French Translation (minor) – Western University
Previous work
- Crescent 2e and Exile – Copy editor
- History, Politics and Theory in the Great Divergence Debate – Indexer
- CBR+PNK: OVERLOAD – Editor
- CBR+PNK: Augmented – Copy editor
- The Friends of Pinery Park website – Copy editor and site map restructuring
- Signals 3 – Developmental editor and project manager
- Compass and Explore series – Website editor and project manager
I am a Membership Secretary of the Indexing Society of Canada and a member of Editors Canada. Visit my LinkedIn page for an extended resumé.