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 (including negotiating contracts/rights agreements for), edited, and devised successful publishing strategies for over two hundred trade, crossover, and scholarly nonfiction titles. My books include two Financial Times Best Books of the Year, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner, a Wolfson History Prize winner, National Jewish Book Award finalists, and books shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize and the James Tait Black Prize and longlisted for the Women’s Prize. 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.

In addition, 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; won fellowships to travel to Finland, Sweden, and Turkey to learn about foreign rights, and volunteered for the Association of University Presses.

As a writer, I have contributed book reviews and review essays to the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Millions, NPR's website, Ploughshares, and the Times Literary Supplement, and have been accepted as a participant in writing workshops with New York Times bestselling author Dani Shapiro and with Tin House/The McCormack Writing Center and awarded a residency for creative nonfiction.

As a freelancer for Reedsy, I welcome the chance to advise on publishing strategy (especially contracts/rights) for as well as to provide editorial assessments for and to copy edit and proofread manuscripts.

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