Elizabeth Welsh is a freelance editor with many years experience editing books and journals. In addition to this, she is an academic researcher and writer, specializing in Modernist and Post-Colonial literature. 

Editorial

She is currently a freelance editor for a number of publishing companies, including Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Edinburgh University Press, Charlesworth Press, Wearset, Liverpool University Press and Imperial College Press, among others.

Her editorial specializations include creative writing, literature, the arts, art history, classical studies, history,  politics, international relations, philosophy, cultural studies, media studies education, library and information studies, Asia-Pacific studies, development studies, anthropology and sociology. She has edited books and/or journals in all of the above areas.

In addition to this, she holds a number of editorial positions, as follows:

She is the New Zealand literature expert for Routledge Academic’s online resource ABES, where she assesses, edits and produces reviews on all new and forthcoming books and articles on New Zealand literature.

She is the academic copy editor for the interdisciplinary research-rich Journal of Asia-Pacific studies.

Elizabeth also holds the position of educational copy editor for the animal rights organisation SAFE, assisting in the editorial and proofreading of their educational resources ‘Animals and Us’.

She is Editor of The Typewriter, a poetry initiative in its third year, dedicated to publishing quality emerging New Zealand poets.

For more information about her freelance work or to discuss a potential freelance project with her, email Elizabeth at elizabethrwelsh@gmail.com

Academic

She is a University of Auckland graduate, with her Masters in English on New Zealand short story writer Katherine Mansfield and is currently researching for her PhD, soon to be commenced in London, United Kingdom.

Creative

Creatively she writes poetry and short stories and has been published in a variety of online and print publications.

As well as writing short reviews on her blog, she has written online ‘Arts and Letters’ articles for Morph Magazine, a non-profit publication produced by the Depot Artspace in Devonport.