Cheryl Freedman is a long-time freelance editor who edits anything she finds interesting, including crime fiction, academic papers, Jewish mysticism books and articles, memoirs, and more. She was the executive director of Crime Writers of Canada for 10 years as well as the sometime-chair of the Bloody Words Mystery Conference and its successor, the Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award/Bony Blithe Mini-Con.
In 2004, she won the Derrick Murdoch Award, a special achievement award from Crime Writers of Canada for contributions to the genre of crime and mystery writing.
With her interest in ferrets, fairy tales, and folklore, she is currently working on a fairy tale mystery series featuring a half-ogre/half-human PI and a bipedal talking, fedora-wearing ferret.