Dr. Claire Wilkshire is an experienced editor, teacher, translator/interpreter, and writer.

Since establishing her business in 2006, Claire has edited major projects such as the reports of the Independent Statutory Review Committee (ATIPPA), the Offshore Helicopter Safety Inquiry, the Commission of Inquiry into Hormone Receptor Testing, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Her editing clients have also included the Canadian government and several provincial government departments, the C-NLOPB, e-learning specialists, insurers, writers, musicians, and professors and graduate students working at universities in Canada and internationally.

As a translator, Claire has worked primarily on medical documents and compensation claims.

Claire taught French and English at Memorial University for fifteen years before starting her business. She has taught adults in both languages, individually and in groups, in academic, corporate, and community settings.

Claire’s collection of short stories, The Love Olympics, was released in October 2021 and her novel, Maxine, in March 2013, both by Breakwater Books. Her stories, book reviews, and articles have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies.

You can email Claire here.

Claire also conducts the Francophone Association choir, La Rose des Vents. For information about the choir, please look here or email.

From January 2021 to June 2023, Claire served as senior editor at Breakwater Books.

Claire’s key professional interests at the moment are interpreting, writing, and choir.