Jaya Chatterjee – Editor

I began my publishing career in the trade book division of W.W. Norton & Company, and joined Yale University Press in 2009.

At Yale, I have acquired and edited trade and scholarly non-fiction, including a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner and books longlisted for the Cundill History Prize and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. My books have been bestsellers, and have been warmly reviewed in Arts & Letters Daily, Commentary, Dissent, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, the Literary Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Nation, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, Publishers Weekly, the Times Literary Supplement, the Times of London, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. They have been serialized in the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, and Lapham’s Quarterly, too.

I have shared my knowledge of the industry as a faculty member and panelist at workshops for prospective authors and employees at colleges, universities, and literary festivals around the world, and am a volunteer member of the Association of University Presses Acquisitions Editorial Committee and the Wellesley College Mentorship Affinity Program. In addition, I have contributed book reviews and review essays to the Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR's website, Ploughshares, and the Times Literary Supplement.

In recognition of my contributions to the industry, I was named a finalist for the Yale Publishing Course's Innovative Leader Scholarship, ranked #1 among editors of history, politics, and current affairs books by Publishers Marketplace, profiled by the Wellesley College alumnae magazine and by Publishers Weekly, which, along with the American Booksellers Association, named me a top professional in publishing, and awarded fellowships to travel to Finland, Sweden, and Turkey.

As a freelancer for Reedsy, I welcome opportunities to provide book coaching services and editorial assessments, as well as to edit and proofread manuscripts.

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