Elana Jolley – Editor

Elana has a decade of experience in the publishing world, editing most recently for Ballantine Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, for seven years. There, she edited New York Times bestselling historical and suspense fiction, thrillers, literary fiction, women’s fiction, memoir, narrative nonfiction, and new age literature. Notable recent work includes The Hollywood Spy by New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal, The Better Liar by debut novelist Tanen Jones, and Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by NEA fellow Toni Jensen. Before her time at Penguin Random House, she worked as Managing Editor of Other Press and, before that, at Regina Ryan Books—as well as at Modern Books and Elwin Street Productions in London. Elana has lived and breathed the written word since college: After graduating cum laude from Barnard College at Columbia University, she received her master’s degree in Early Modern English Literature from Oxford University. She is a native New Yorker and a prize-winning poet whose work has most recently been published in The Brazenhead Review and Five Dials Magazine alongside Ali Smith and Lydia Davis.