Gwen Hawkes – Editor

I have experience working with a wide range of nonfiction, including how-to (cookbooks and craft books), practical nonfiction (self-help and personal development), and narrative nonfiction (cultural criticism, food writing, history). I love the power of nonfiction to transform, astonish, and inspire. It has a magic all its own.

As someone actively acquiring and working in the publishing industry, I have a keen sense of the current market and an understanding of exactly what editors and agents are looking for.

My goal is always to help authors communicate clearly, elegantly, and powerfully on the page, whether through the big-picture process of re-structuring a proposal or the minutia of smoothing out a cumbersome sentence. It’s important to me that I support the voice of every writer I work with.

I’m excited to work with writers at various stages of the writing process, from developing a marketable book concept or honing the perfect proposal to editing a manuscript at the line level.

Outside of the book world, I am an overly ambitious cake baker, a far less ambitious runner, and an aspiring harpist.