Nancy Flight
Publisher
Nancy Flight is associate publisher of Greystone Books, a division of D & M. She has been editing books for thirty-seven years, both as an in-house editor and as a freelancer, in both Canada and the United States. She has worked with such authors as David Suzuki, Evelyn Lau, Wade Davis, Wayne Grady, Bill McKibben, Harry Thurston, and Brian Brett, among many others. She was the recipient of the 1988 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for her work on Genethics: The Art of Engineering Life by David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson.
In addition, she has taught at the Banff Book Editing Workshop, the Simon Fraser University Book Editing Workshop, the SFU Writing and Publishing Program, and the SFU Book Publishing Workshop. In 2004 and 2005, she was adjunct professor and Ralph Hancox Fellow in the SFU Master of Publishing Program.
Nancy is also a past president of the Editors' Association of Canada and of the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and is currently on the executive council of the Association of Canadian Book Publishers.
Website: www.greystonebooks.com
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