About me

I work mostly as a research editor, which means I spend a lot of time cleaning up other people's drafts without making the history sound cleaner than it is. Most of my projects are around Caribbean estate histories, family papers, plantation records, and the way those things get written about later.

I started in publishing, then moved into research support almost by accident. Now I help writers, families, small institutions and researchers make sense of material that is usually scattered across archives, old catalogues, private folders and half-finished notes.

I am not trying to make every story neat. Usually I am trying to keep the uncertainty visible without letting the whole thing fall apart. A name changes spelling, a property appears under two versions, a letter says one thing and an inventory says another. That is where most of the real work is.