Ross Fraser-Smith
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Ross Fraser-Smith

Freelance Editor and WriterLondon, United Kingdom
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Ross Fraser-Smith
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Ross Fraser-Smith

Freelance Editor and WriterLondon, United Kingdom
About me
I'm a freelance editor and writer. Currently based in London.
Projects
  • The Readymades Assistant Editor
    The Readymades Assistant EditorI was credited as assistant editor in the second edition of John Holten’s multi-narrative art history book, The Readymades, which was re-published by Broken Dimanche Press in September 2019.
  • Factory - Founding editor
    Factory - Founding editorThis was a project I began in my final year of Goldsmiths. Together with a group of sub-editors we secured funding from our student union to produce 500 copies of this 32-page magazine. A creative writing magazine split between fiction and poetry, the project needed meticulous editing. I designed it myself in InDesign in long form, curated the writing and went to print offset. With a unique editorial flavour and aesthetic, this magazine is now stocked in two London bookshops. This project, which
Projects credited in
  • About Trees
    About TreesRobert MacFarlane writes “There is no lone tree language, but a forest of tree languages.” In ABOUT TREES, Katie Holten invites us to enter some of these forests. She has created a Tree Alphabet and used it to translate a compendium of well known, loved, lost and new writing. She takes readers on a journey from ‘primeval atoms’ and cave paintings to the death of a 3,500 year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to Emerson’s language of fossil poetry,
Skills
  • Editorial Content
  • Copyediting
  • Editorial Design
  • Editorial Direction
  • Proofreading
  • Commissioning Content
  • Design
  • Art Direction
  • Curating
  • Commissioning
Education
    Goldsmiths, University of London logo
    Goldsmiths, University of London logo
    English LiteratureGoldsmiths, University of London
    London, United Kingdom
    Proactive and creative graduate from the English and Comparative Literature (BA) at Goldsmiths, University of London, with upper second class honours. I possess an extensive range of experience in the publishing industry.