Experience

Cengage Australia & New Zealand

• Australia
• Book Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editor - Primary

  • Oct 2021 - Present

• Customer Service Representative

  • Nov 2019 - Oct 2021

  As the public face of Cengage, a friendly and calm phone manner, problem solving skills under pressure and the ability to work closely with others in the team has been crucial. In this role I have built skills in managing multiple varied communications at once and prioritising effectively, coordinating communications between our Accounts, Supply Chain, Technology, Data Integrity, Publishing, GALE and Marketing teams, while also being the first line of communication for our courier Toll Logistics. This role requires an in-depth knowledge of BookMaster (AS400), competency with JIRA and Magellan and a very high level of attention to detail.



The Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne

• Publishing and Communications Masters Student

  • 2017 - Nov 2019

  H1 average, First Class Honours H1 average, First Class Honours



Allen & Unwin

• Australia
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editorial Intern

  • Jul 2019 - Sep 2019

  • Proofread upcoming titles to tight deadlines and took in book corrections in InDesign. • Read new manuscripts and provided written assessments. • Copyedited upcoming titles with supervision. • Conducted research with Allen & Unwin on the impact of bookstore gatekeeping on paperback middle-grade and junior fiction graphic novel sales and means of mitigating this through rebranding. • Worked as a casual receptionist for Allen & Unwin post-internship, overseeing front of house queries.



Voiceworks Mag

• Poetry Editor

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

  • Worked with a close team of fellow editors on a nationally recognised literary journal. • Fine attention to detail, excellent spelling, grammar and punctuation were essential. • Regularly fact-checked, structurally edited and copyedited submissions. • Communicated with authors – via email and in person – in a friendly and constructive way and provided feedback for all pieces, as contributors are often submitting work for the first time. • Worked with a close team of fellow editors on a nationally recognised literary journal. • Fine attention to detail, excellent spelling, grammar and punctuation were essential. • Regularly fact-checked, structurally edited and copyedited submissions. • Communicated with authors – via email and in person – in a friendly and constructive way and provided feedback for all pieces, as contributors are often submitting work for the first time.



Antithesis Journal

• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Editor

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

  As Managing Editor for Antithesis, I was responsible for heading a team of editors, illustrators and designers to create our 2018 journal Revive. In this role I created a production schedule to work around the university semester timeline, wrote the journal’s style guide and built a collaborative and friendly environment for a team of volunteers. Managing the editorial side of the journal in particular provided an opportunity to introduce new content ideas, creating a publication that brought peer-reviewed academic work together with creative work around a central theme.



Melbourne University Publishing

• Australia
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales and Marketing Intern

  • Apr 2016 - Jul 2016

  In a sales and publicity role I worked one day a week at MUP organising mailing lists, creating mail chimp e-newsletters, updating the MUP website and mailing out review copies. This position required me to appraise and organise unsolicited manuscripts, write press releases, itineraries and marketing plans for upcoming books and regularly use programs such as Word, Excel, InDesign and Photoshop. I updated Goodreads book information, helped collate marketing information for meetings and mailed out review copies. All of these tasks had to be completed to strict deadlines with MUP’s fast turn around of book production.



Farrago Magazine

• Australia
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Illustrator and Writer

  • Feb 2011 - Nov 2015

  I have been involved with the University of Melbourne’s student magazine Farrago as an illustrator and writer for four years while at university among other smaller student publications. I have been involved with the University of Melbourne’s student magazine Farrago as an illustrator and writer for four years while at university among other smaller student publications.