Hello there. My name is Patricia Melnyk, and I have 20 years of experience in writing and editing. My professional background includes media, academic and fiction writing.
For eight years I worked as a Public Relations Writer writing and editing promotional material and business and marketing proposals. I currently earn a living as a high school English teacher, and hold two university degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in English and French, and a Bachelor of Education, specializing in English as a second language.
A hard-working perfectionist and a stickler for deadlines, I would welcome the opportunity to showcase my work and strike up a mutually beneficial collaboration.
Attached you will find two recent examples of my writing (news articles published in "The Montreal Gazette", the main English-language newspaper).
I look forward to hearing from you, should my qualifications prove of interest to you.
P.S. Don't like to toot my own horn, but I was one of the few Canadian runners-up in t