Lauren Hooker, Editor in Oakland, California, USA

Overview

I'm an experienced editor and copy editor with a background in indie publishing (Seven Stories Press). The genres I work with most are literary fiction, memoirs, political nonfiction, and children's/YA, but I also love working on books that don't slot neatly into one genre. I've copyedited autofiction by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux; I've edited memoirs by doctors and ballerinas, histories for young readers that are taught in classes across the country, and novels in translation from Romania and Italy. My goal is always to preserve the author's voice as much as possible and work with the author to make a book the best version of itself it can be. I'm also a published author, so I know what it's like to be on the other side.

Services

Developmental Editing

Copy Editing

Non-Fiction

Biographies & Memoirs Children’s Non-Fiction Political Science & Current Affairs

Fiction

Children's Literary Fiction Young Adult

Languages

English (US)

Awards

The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2021

Work experience

Freelance Editor

Self-employed

Dec, 2022 — Present

Senior Editor

Seven Stories Press

Aug, 2014 — Dec, 2022 (over 8 years)

Acquired titles in the fields of literary fiction, nonfiction, and YA, including William deBuys’s The Trail to Kanjiroba, Spencer Reece’s The Secret Gospel of Mark, Tim Lockette’s Tell It True and Atty at Law, Devra Lehmann’s Socrates, Rebecca Pitts’s Jane Jacobs, Chloe Hooper’s The Arsonist, and S. P. Tenhoff’s The Involuntary Sojourner

Edited books, including Robin Marty’s Handbook for a Post-Roe America and New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, and Nadia Terranova’s Farewell, Ghosts (trans. Ann Goldstein)

Copyedited books, including Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s A Girl’s Story and Getting Lost (trans. Alison L. Strayer)