Eileen Daly is a Freelance Editor, Writer and Publishing Consultant. She works with organisations including Tate, MIMA, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Thomas Dane, Whitechapel Gallery and Ridinghouse. Publications include Betwixt (Freelands Foundation, 2024), A Fine Toothed Comb (Lubaina Himid Projects, 2023), Can It Be About Us? (Tate, 2023), The Crossing of Innumerable Paths (Ridinghouse, 2019), Sounds Like Her (Beam Editions, 2019).
Working across curatorial and learning contexts, she edits, proof-reads and project manages publications. She advises on publishing strategies and works with organisations looking to change structural inequalities from an editorial context. Her expertise includes editing academic, curatorial, fiction, poetry, experimental and creative non-fiction writing.
Eileen teaches writing courses for artists and curators. In 2003 she co-founded Akerman Daly, producing award-winning publications by Fabian Peake, Maria Zahle and Eiko Soga. In 2018 she set up The Readers to explore the relationship between writing and reading.
She holds an MA Visual Culture and BA Hons (First Class) Art History, Design & Film, both from Middlesex University. She was on the Board of New Contemporaries (2003–21) and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Engage Journal (2011–16).
As an editor, she considers the questions: Who is speaking? What do they want to say?
