About Forest-Flier Editorial Services
NANCY FOREST-FLIER received her training in English composition at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, in the United States, from which she graduated with honors. She did graduate studies in English literature at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. A writer, her articles have appeared in both American and British publications. She worked as a typographer and type editor for BPE Graphics in New York where she was editor-in-chief. A resident of the Netherlands since 1982, she has been working as a freelance Dutch-English translator and English language editor since 1988 and has built up a solid and faithful clientele.
Her clients include the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (the National Library of the Netherlands), the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Amsterdam’s Verzetsmuseum (the Museum of the Resistance), the Bijbels Museum in Amsterdam, the publishing firms Lemniscaat and Querido, the foundation Ons Erfdeel (publisher of the yearbook The Low Countries), the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology in Leiden, and various art museums and galleries, including the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), and De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam).
Mrs. Forest-Flier is a member of the Nederlands Genootschap van Vertalers and the Society of English Native Speaking Editors.
JIM FOREST has been an editor and journalist for various newspapers, magazines and news services. He is the author of numerous books for both adults and children and has both edited and designed many publications. He has lived in the Netherlands since 1977.