Susan McMaster's professional editing career spans 35 years with governmental and private clients and includes two decades at the National Gallery of Canada in bilingual publishing. As a Senior Book Editor, she was the founding editor of Vernissage: The Magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, and edited some 30 major catalogues as The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (co-publisher M&S); Land Spirit Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada (Janet Braide Award for scholarship); Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (co-publisher Yale UP, Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award); Magicians of Light (IRIS Best Books of Photography); and Lisette Model (George Wittenborn Award for writing and editing), plus numerous related publications. Her recent project, Sanattiaqsimajut: Inuit Art from the Carleton University Art Gallery Collection (eds. Sandra Dyck and Ingo Hessel, 2009), has been awarded First Prize, Exhibition Catalogues (2009 American Association of Museums Publications Design Competition), and Special recognition, Art Publication of the Year (Ontario Association of Art Galleries).

McMaster was the founding editor of Branching Out: The National Feminist Quarterly, and the first editor of ACCESS, the educational magazine of the Province of Alberta. Other projects include Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action, which gathers work by 108 poets and artists across Canada; Dangerous Graces: Women's Poetry on Stage, mounted at the Great Canadian Theatre Company; the Living Archives series of the League of Canadian Poets; and the Canadian issue of the international literary magazine SugarMule. A poet herself, McMaster is author or editor of some 20 books and recordings (see "Home", below). A detailed CV is available on request.

Morel McMaster is entering her final year in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program, with a minor in Philosophy, at Concordia University in Montreal. She is bilingual and has worked at the National Gallery of Canada in Visitor Services; and for Cision, Montreal, transcribing media and broadcast materials such as CBC's The House, The National, The Fifth Estate, and World Report. Her art work has recently appeared in Maisonneuve magazine and Nailbiter 2: An Anxiety Zine.

Comments from clients on Morel's editing to date include "fantastic work" (Sandra Dyck, curator, CUAG) and "it was a huge help to have a professional and objective perspective on the text" (D. Nemiroff, director CUAG). In 2008, she worked with SUMAC Editing & Writing as a substantive editor and proofreader for Invention & Revival: The Colour Drypoints of David Milne and John Hartman (Rosemarie Tovell, ed., CUAG 2008). She was a central partner on the SUMAC editorial team responsible for Sanattiaqsimajut: Inuit Art from the Carleton University Art Gallery Collection (Sandra Dyck and Ingo Hessel, eds., CUAG 2009), a catalogue comprising essays by 39 authors on 125 works of art, launched in December 2009 at CUAG. Designed by Mark Timmings (Timmings and Debay), Sanattiaqsimajut has just been awarded First Prize for Exhibition Catalogues in the 2009 American Association of Museums Publications Design Competition, and a Special recognition, Art Publication of the Year Category award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.