Suzanne Zelazo is a Canadian-American creative producer with 20 years of editorial and publishing experience, from substantive editing and anthologizing to founding and running Queen Street Quarterly, a small press literary magazine. She served as Managing Editor of a national sports magazine for three years and has offered freelance copy-editing and content production for over 10 years.
Suzanne has taught literature, theory, composition, and creative writing courses at both large and small institutions throughout Ontario, and more recently, in Southern Maine. Also within higher education, she has conducted extensive academic strategic planning at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and coordinated numerous symposia, speakers series, conferences, and workshops.
Alongside her literary and academic work, Suzanne has spent over 15 years successfully managing arts-based events both within academia and in the cultural sector including curatorial project management, vernissages and exhibitions, and book launches.
She has been mentoring arts-based entrepreneurs, graduate and undergraduate students, interns, and research assistants in creative planning, grant writing, digital and social media content, corporate speeches and presentations, technical copywriting, and content production.
Check out Suzanne’s exhibition review of Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable in the Brooklyn Rail.