Certifications

Bachelor of Arts in English and Psychology, cum laude
University of South Africa

Certificate of Basic Copy Editing and Proofreading
McGillivray Linnegar Associates

Membership

2023–: Associate member of the Professional Editors' Guild of South Africa

Volunteer/Community Participation

2025–: Western Cape branch reporter for the Professional Editors’ Guild of South Africa

2021–: Guest writer or writing moderator/editor for non-profit fiction zines

2017: Level 1 English teacher at the Scalabrini Centre

2015–: Beta reader and peer editor for self-published fiction

About

Cassidy Roberts is an English editor (professionally) and writer (obsessively). She cut her nitpicking teeth editing the fiction of peers in writing communities and began her professional career in 2024 as a freelance editor, working with a self-publishing company and independent clients to polish a dozen debut works.

She has edited fiction, educational non-fiction, several fascinating memoirs and one RAM-busting cookbook. Her editing passion is fiction, though she is happiest whenever she is shepherding lost and shivering punctuation into its rightful place.

She likes pied crows and intensely dislikes superfluous commas before conjunctions. 

'They/them/their/theirs' when used in the singular form is correct, old as the hills and very cool.