Educational qualifications
- MSc Environmental Resource Management (UCD, distinction)
- BSc Biological Sciences (University of London)
Training and professional development
- Mastering Fiction Editing with Niamh Mulvey, Publishing Ireland, 2025 (Dublin)
- Non-fiction Editing, Publishing Ireland, 2020 (Dublin)
- Substantive Editing and Rewriting, The Publishing Training Centre, 2019 (London)
- Practical Mark-up of PDFs, Society for Editing and Proofreading (SfEP), 2017 (Dublin)
- Advanced Copy-editing, The Publishing Training Centre, 2015 (London)
- Copy-editing, The Publishing Training Centre, 2014 (London)
Experience
Experienced editor and proofreader – freelance since January 2015. Technical writer and editor in the ICT and medical device industries in Ireland; Publications manager and consultant for The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical); Writer and editor for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-funded agriculture development projects in Malawi and Uganda; Lecturer in biology at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland.
Services offered
Copy-editing, line editing, developmental editing, structural editing, fiction editing, non-fiction editing, scientific editing, proofreading, rewriting, plain English, academic editing
Media
Books, dissertations, journal articles, reports, textbooks, training manuals, theses, and websites.
Subject areas
Non-fiction: Agriculture, science, maths, ICT, environment, nursing, medicine, business, social sciences, biography/memoir, general non-fiction
Fiction: All genres
Clients include
- Folens
- Penguin
- Quadrille
- Springer Nature
- Whitefox Publishing
- Electricity Supply Board
- Health Service Executive
- Irish Department of Foreign Affairs
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Limerick
- University of Amsterdam
- Logitech
- The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- World Bank Publications
- WorldFish
- World Health Organization (WHO)
Examples of work undertaken
- Schweitzer, A. 2025. Trade Works, Whitefox, Apple Books (editing & proofreading)
- Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). 2024. Evaluation of the Nutrition and Food Security Outcomes of the Sierra Leone and Liberia Mission Strategies 2019-2023. Evaluation and Audit Unit, DFA (editing and proofreading)
- Logitech. 2023. Logitech Sustainability Report FY22, Logitech (editing & proofreading)
- Electricity Supply Board. 2023. ESB Annual Report 2022 (editing and proofreading)
- Dharani, N. and Yenesew, A. 2022. Medicinal Plants of East Africa, Penguin Random House (editing)
- Health Service Executive (HSE). 2021. National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh, Annual Report 2020, HSE (editing)
- Akpo, E., Ojiewo, C.O., Omoigui, L.O., Rubyogo, J.C. and Varshney, R.K. 2020. Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash: A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Springer Nature (editing)
- Burr, T. 2016. Tanya Bakes. Penguin (editing and proofreading)
- Haddad, L., Hawkes, C., Waage, J., Webb, P., Godfray, C. and Toulmin, C. 2016. Food Systems and Diets: Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (editing)
- Association of Higher Education Careers Service (AHECS), 2014. Crafting the Present for Future Employability, AHECS (editing)
- Sills, E.O., Atmadja, S., de Sassi, C., Duchelle, A.E., Kweka, D., Resosudarmo, I.A.P. and Sunderlin, W.D. (eds.). 2014. REDD+ on the Ground: A Case Book of Subnational Initiatives across the Globe. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/005202 (proofreading)
- Mulvany et al. 2014. Active Maths 3, Folens (editing and proofreading)
Testimonials
Anne took the rough draft of my first scholarly book manuscript and helped me ready it for submission. Anne’s knowledge and experience were invaluable. She helped me clarify technical points that required finetuning and was exceptionally thorough with her editing. I accepted her proposed changes largely across the board because she had put much effort into trying to understand my novel’s posits and my messaging. Anne’s professionalism far exceeded my expectations, and I would highly recommend her to all authors. Her editing skills were worth every penny and more.
Siobhan Griffin, author of Sun Cheese, Rewriting Your Future (2025)
Additional information
I enjoy the process and craft of editing and take pride in consistently delivering quality work on time. I usually make lots of suggestions, but I will always preserve your style and voice. You’ve done the hard part of writing—you can trust me to work closely with you to give you a thoroughly refined final version!