About Gerda & Gary
Gerda holds an MA from the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and a PhD from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada. As an academic editor, she works with scholars all over the world. She also teaches seminars in academic writing and works with and translates manuscripts in German, Dutch, and English. She has published some 50 chapters, books, columns, articles, and opinion pieces, and presented her work at international conferences. Before starting her own company (The Write Room in 2001 and The Write Room Press in 2008), she worked as an editor for Elsevier, world-leading publisher of science and health, and served as an editorial board member for Room Magazine, Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal. She lives and works most of the time in British Columbia, Canada.
Gary was homeless in Nevada and he is now the new man in Gerda's life.
Gary was homeless in Nevada and he is now the new man in Gerda's life.