Jeremy K. Spencer

Jeremy K. Spencer – Editor

Deep reader: Full-spectrum writer/editor/copy chief with 16 years' experience in national and internat'l magazines, books, and digital.

Overview

I’m a writer and editor from Memphis, Tennessee. My writing has appeared in Outside, Men’s Journal, Wired, and The Millions, among other places. My long-form editing work has appeared in Best American Science and Nature Writing, received honorable mention in Best American Sportswriting, and won three golds at the Lowell Thomas Awards. I’ve been a contributing features editor at the digital magazine Matter, from Medium/Twitter. I co-edited The Southerner’s Handbook, a New York Times Bestseller. Formerly, I was a senior features editor at Outside, where I edited Wells Tower, Benjamin Percy, Rowan Jacobsen, Bucky McMahon, Patrick Symmes, Jane Smiley, and many others.
Services
Fiction
Action & Adventure Anthologies Humor & Comedy Literary Fiction Mashups Short Story
Non-Fiction
Architecture Art Biographies & Memoirs Design Music Nature Photography Sports & Outdoors Travel
Languages
English (UK) English (US)
Awards
  • Best American
  • New York Times Bestseller
  • Lowell Thomas Gold

Work experience

WRITERTYPE

May, 1998 — Present

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Portfolio

The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors.Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it... read more
Whether you live below the Mason Dixon Line or just wish you did, The Southerner’s Handbook is your guide to living the good life. Curated by the editors of the award-winning Garden & Gun magazine, this compilation of more than 100 instructional and narrative ... read more
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world’s dark spaces: the new American way of war The most momentous change in American wa... read more
The renowned scientist and author of A Life Decoded examines the creation of life in the new field of synthetic genomicsIn 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create “synthetic life”—putting humankind at the threshold of th... read more
A dazzling new collection—two novellas and four short stories from one of the most revered writers of our time, author of seven books of fiction, among them The Tunnel (“An extraordinary achievement”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post); Middle C (“Exhilarating... read more

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