Julia Ringo – Editor

I know that editing can be a highly vulnerable experience, but I also believe in its potential to transform and empower. My primary goal is always to bring a manuscript as close as possible to the best version of itself, in keeping with the author's vision - and to get there we need close communication and mutual understanding. Let's craft a plan together and prepare your book to meet the world.

I’m passionate about fiction and narrative nonfiction, with particular interest in genre-bending and hybrid forms, prose written by poets, and writing about travel, nature, community, and the weight of history. I love multigenerational family stories that cross the world and time. I'm drawn above all to precision and specificity in prose, place, and character, along with stories that trace the intersection between human and non-human lives and that challenge readers to find compassion for a disenfranchised group. And dark humor is a bonus!

I’m fortunate enough to have spent my career at some of the most renowned publishing houses in the country, and I look forward to bringing this experience to bear on shaping your manuscript. I began my publishing career as an editorial intern at the storied indie Grove Press, where I first witnessed up close the workings of a literary publishing house: the piles of submissions, the impassioned editorial meetings, the enthusiasm of every employee from the rights department to design. In 2015, I took an editorial position at Alfred A. Knopf, where I assisted a nonfiction editor. On the nonfiction side, I have shaped academic texts for trade publishing and helped many first-time authors gain a sense for structure and scene.

At Farrar, Straus and Giroux, I edited the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman; PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South; I Live a Life Like Yours by Jan Grue, named a best memoir of 2021 by Kirkus; and fiction by O. Henry Prize-winner Gunnhild Oyehaug and Man Asian Literary Prize laureate Miguel Syjuco, among many other titles.