Heather Martin

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Freelance editor • https://heather-martin.com Inveterate reader, coder, climber, shutterbug, tinkerer & dork Pronouns: she/her • elle Location: Tiohtià:ke • Mooniyang • Montreal Languages: English • French

A collage of book covers for the following titles: Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson, You’ve Changed by Ian Williams, The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya, This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum, How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron, Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, The Book Tour by Emily Ohanjanians, and Regenesis by George Monbiot.
Covers of Foster by Claire Keegan; Wapke, edited by Michel Jean; and Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin
The shiny waters of the St. Lawrence with a sky full of backlit clouds.
A bed of white trilliums on the forest floor.
A huge weeping willow with bright yellow-green leaves on the shores of a pond on a sunny afternoon
Close-up of a dark brown toad in a pond
A dark brown toad sits in a pond with its head above the water.
« La feuille a appris à vivre avec les humeurs du vent. Cependant, à mesure que les journées raccourcissaient, elle éprouvait de la lassitude devant ses caprices. Ne s’arrêterait-il jamais? La réponse est non et le vent le savait, mais pas la feuille, rouge de fatigue, qui dansait avec de moins en moins d’aisance. À quel moment le jeu était-il devenu un combat? » —Michel Jean, Tiohtiá:ke
Cozy rust-coloured legwarmers
Hand holding books in Argo Bookshop: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Foster by Claire Keegan, and The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy.
Excerpt from Karen Yin's The Conscious Style Guide: "We defy categorization. Our variations obliterate labels. Yet we continue to draw lines, build walls, put people and ourselves in boxes. And when someone does not fit, we blame them, not the box. The goal of inclusive terminology is not to break free of labels and ignore our differences. Rather, the goal is to honor the self-categorization of groups who have been denied the power to name themselves.
The covers of The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett and The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
The fern room of the Montreal Botanical Garden's greenhouse, complete with artificial waterfall and creek.
Photo of books laid out on a table: Kenza Bennis's Les monologues du voile, Lamya H's Hijab Butch Blues, Sabina Khan's The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali, G. Willow Wilson's Ms. Marvel series and Nussaibah Younis's Fundamentally
Photo of books laid out on a table: Nino Cipri's Finna, April Daniels's Dreadnought, Casey Plett's Little Fish, Meredith Russo's If I Was Your Girl and Vivak Shraya's Even This Page Is White
Cover of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Features the image of a Black woman's head and neck in profile, her silhouette filled with an image of a galaxy.