Nancy Flight

Nancy Flight is associate publisher of Greystone Books, a division of Douglas & McIntyre. She has been editing books for 35 years, both as an in-house editor and as a freelancer, in both Canada and the United States. She has worked with such authors as David Suzuki, Evelyn Lau, Wade Davis, Candace Savage, Bill McKibben, Harry Thurston, and Rick Bass and was the recipient of the 1988 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for her work on Genethics: The Art of Engineering Life by David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson. She has taught at the Banff Book Editing Workshop and the SFU Summer Publishing Workshops, as well as in the SFU Writing and Publishing Program and the SFU Master of Publishing Program. She has also served as president of the Editors’ Association of Canada and the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia.