Editorial Freelancers Association
Member Profile
Matthew Bennett
Cascadia Editors Collective
Matthew Bennett began editing in 2008 at Ronsdale Press, where he shepherded documents from submission to final print, and served as editor for publications such as Sheila James’ In the Wake of Loss (2009). Matthew was later edited academic books, copy and line editing Nicholas Hudson’s A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson (Pickering & Chatto, 2013) and proofreading Natalia Molina’s A Place at Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (University of California Press). From 2018 to 2021, he served on the board the Northwest Editors Guild, a professional association that represents over 350 editors in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. His scholarly chapter on race and politics in the transatlantic basin was published in A Cultural History of Race in the Reformation and Enlightenment, 1550–1760 (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Matthew’s reading and writing interests range from high literary fiction to pulp sci-fi and horror, from nuts-and-bolts histories to cutting-edge philosophy. Writers he has mentored in the past have been similarly diverse–short story mavens, novelist aces, and scholar hedgehogs–and they typically find his bizarre reading recommendations spot-on. He tells his writing friends that his ideal author would have the philosophical speculation of Borges and the emotional depth of Carver. Because of his academic training, writing experience, and voracious literary diet, he is qualified to advise writers of literary fiction, genre fiction (sci-fi, horror, Western, romance), young adult fiction, graphic novels, memoir, and even academic monographs.
Seattle, WA
US
Business phone: 206-639-4861
Email: matthew@cascadiaeditors.com
http://www.cascadiaeditors.com
Years in the field: 8
Years freelancing: 6
Matthew Bennett
Matthew Bennett began editing in 2008 at Ronsdale Press, where he shepherded documents from submission to final print, and served as editor for publications such as Sheila James’ In the Wake of Loss (2009). Matthew was later edited academic books, copy and line editing Nicholas Hudson’s A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson (Pickering & Chatto, 2013) and proofreading Natalia Molina’s A Place at Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (University of California Press). From 2018 to 2021, he served on the board the Northwest Editors Guild, a professional association that represents over 350 editors in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. His scholarly chapter on race and politics in the transatlantic basin was published in A Cultural History of Race in the Reformation and Enlightenment, 1550–1760 (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Matthew’s reading and writing interests range from high literary fiction to pulp sci-fi and horror, from nuts-and-bolts histories to cutting-edge philosophy. Writers he has mentored in the past have been similarly diverse–short story mavens, novelist aces, and scholar hedgehogs–and they typically find his bizarre reading recommendations spot-on. He tells his writing friends that his ideal author would have the philosophical speculation of Borges and the emotional depth of Carver. Because of his academic training, writing experience, and voracious literary diet, he is qualified to advise writers of literary fiction, genre fiction (sci-fi, horror, Western, romance), young adult fiction, graphic novels, memoir, and even academic monographs.
