Overview
I am the managing editor of Nightboat Books, an award-winning publisher of literary fiction, poetry, essays, and translation. I have over a decade's worth of experience editing fiction, poetry, essays, plays, and hybrid-genre writing. Whether its digging into the details, like tinkering with sentences to get the syntax just right, or zooming out to understand and clarify the big picture, I love helping authors communicate their passions, politics, and visionary views. As a writer and poet myself, I know how sensitive and vulnerable the process of sharing one's work can be, which is why I make it my priority to support authors throughout the editorial process with empathy and focus, so you feel both heard and inspired to push yourself further.
Some of the critically acclaimed and award-winning books I've had the privilege to work on include: Field Theories by Samiya Bashir, Slingshot by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Pet Sounds by Stephanie Young, Doomstead Days by Brian Teare, Invasive species by Marwa Helal, Surge by Etel Adnan, Nepantla: An Anthology of Queer Poets of Color, and many others.
Through my work as managing editor for two small press publishers, I have shepherded 100+ books and their authors through editorial, design, and production processes. I have extensive experience with developmental editing, copy editing, and proofreading, as well as writing publicity and marketing copy and managing editorial and production schedules. I know what it takes to get a book made and I'm pretty great at helping everyone have a good time doing it!
Some of the critically acclaimed and award-winning books I've had the privilege to work on include: Field Theories by Samiya Bashir, Slingshot by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Pet Sounds by Stephanie Young, Doomstead Days by Brian Teare, Invasive species by Marwa Helal, Surge by Etel Adnan, Nepantla: An Anthology of Queer Poets of Color, and many others.
Through my work as managing editor for two small press publishers, I have shepherded 100+ books and their authors through editorial, design, and production processes. I have extensive experience with developmental editing, copy editing, and proofreading, as well as writing publicity and marketing copy and managing editorial and production schedules. I know what it takes to get a book made and I'm pretty great at helping everyone have a good time doing it!
Services
Non-Fiction
Art
LGBTQ Non-Fiction
Nature
Fiction
LGBTQ Fiction
Literary Fiction
Poetry
Languages
English (CAN)
English (US)
Work experience
Nightboat Books
Jan, 2015 —
Present
Summer BF Press
Jul, 2009 —
Jul, 2013
(about 4 years)
The Post-Apollo Press
Jun, 2009 —
Jun, 2015
(about 6 years)
Portfolio
Lyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call, ascensional modes of thinking, pop songs, the built environment and its discontents, the post-pu... read more
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in declin... read more
On the fringes of the music scene in a Southern college town, a lonely young student driven to fl ee a troubled adolescence pursues and forms a life-altering relationship with an acclaimed artist-musician. Their understanding develops in a pattern of sex and r... read more
Fluxo-Floema is a detective novel of sorts―pornographic, scatological, and spiritual―that ultimately references the failure and success of writing. It’s about vocabulary, astrology, dramaturgy, science, a story within a story within a story. It’s a celestial m... read more
Fiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. Leslie Scalapino's new book of prose, THE DIHEDRONS GAZELLE-DIHEDRALS ZOOM, while a work that stands on its own, is book II as a pair with book I, FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR HORSE-FLOWS (Starcherone, 2010), described by Michael McClur... read more
SLINGSHOT questions the value of manhood, the price of sex, and the possibility of liberation. SLINGSHOT begins with the author ensconced in the menacing isolation of the pastoral, but once the work migrates to the City, monstrum grows form and fangs. In these... read more
A book of unruly love poems about complicated sexuality, precarity, and kinship Working from the sticky interface of property and sex, Stephanie Young takes up the question of passing when narrow definitions of family on offer by the law and capitalist social ... read more
This long overdue anthology of New Narrative includes both classic New Narrative texts and rare supplementary materials, allowing the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social struggle to bound back to life, ripe with dramatic propulsion, t... read more
The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United StatesIn 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry... read more
In Don’t Let Them See Me Like This, Jasmine Gibson explores myriad intersectional identities in relation to The State, disease, love, sex, failure, and triumph. Speaking to those who feel disillusioned by both radical and banal spaces and inspired/informed by ... read more
A new volume of aphoristic prose and philosophical poetry from Etel Adnan, whose work The New York Times recently described as the "meditative heir to Nietzsche's aphorisms, Rilke's Book of Hours and the verses of Sufi mysticism." She writes: "Reality is messi... read more
On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment.... read more
Compiled on the occasion of Arab American poet and painter, Etel Adnan's receipt of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, HOMAGE TO ETEL ADNAN is a collection of poetic and critical reflections, meditations and personal... read more
Poetry. "In Anne Waldman's JAGUAR HARMONICS, the voice of the Ayahuasca vine, a 'person woven of sound' speaks to the poet and us: 'now you are quick, soon you will be dead'; 'you can't just go around killing and conquering persons'. And the poet asks herself,... read more
Begun as a response to a front page photograph illustrating a tragedy that the media quickly sensationalized in the early 2000’s, Wolf tells the composite truth of two brothers, a family friend, a father, and a murder. Skeptical of news cycles and the way tria... read more
Neotenica is a novel of encounters: casual sex, arranged-marriage dates, cops, rowdy teenagers, lawyers, a Sapphic flirtation, a rival, a child, and two important dogs. At the center of it are Young Ae, a Korean-born ballet dancer turned PhD student, and her h... read more
Bruce Boone Dismembered collects nearly five decades of writing by Bruce Boone, a founder of New Narrative and critical figure at the crossroads of late twentieth-century avant-garde and social movement writing. At once sexy and political, gossipy and scholarl... read more
These poems span lyric, narrative, dramatic, and multi-media experience, engaging their containers while pushing against their constraints. Field Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics, chicken wings and Newports, love and a shoulder's chill, melding... read more
Grabeland takes place in a country that no longer exists, in a culture rooted in soil and projections. Like a travelogue, the story tours the inner exiles of its characters as they test the limitations of their actual existence. Focusing on Germany and The Uni... read more
"Celebratory, even radical"―The New Yorker "Monumental"―Hyperallergic We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of ... read more
Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader is a landmark collection representing the visionary life’s work of beloved Bay Area luminary Steve Abbott. It brings together a broad cross-section of literary and artistic work spanning three decades of poetry, fiction,... read more
