Overview
As an editor, I have copyedited fiction, poetry, and academic book titles for large and small publishers. My interactions with authors and editors reflect my deep respect for the craft of writing and the integrity of a writer’s voice. I have worked on manuscripts and page proofs at all stages of development, managed authors' papers and archives, and created house style guides and brand books.Currently I'm a better fit for authors who have spent time reading widely and honing their craft, rather than fresh beginners.I began as a poet and still hail from that understanding of literary possibility. Currently I also craft personal essays and articles on a range of topics: food, parenting, artists, and makers.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Parenting & Families
Fiction
Literary Fiction
Poetry
Short Story
Languages
English (US)
Awards
- Jacob Javits fellowship
Work experience
Black Balloon Publishing and Catapult
Jan, 2010 —
Jun, 2015
(over 5 years)
As the founders' first hire, execute strategic plan for independent literary publisher. Direct operations in startup phase, developing systems for contracts, production, distribution, fulfillment, and accounting. Later duties included production/project management, copyediting and proofreading, financial analysis, royalty accounting. Remote management of production staff and multiple vendors.
Self-employed
Jan, 2010 —
Present
Writing, copyediting, manuscript preparation, fact-checking, nonprofit communications, project management.
Provide organizational strategy, project management, editing, fact-checking, and research for clients (list available on request). Self-motivated professional with a passion for collaborative problem-solving, start-ups, and project management. I excel at partnering with an organization to turn mission into strategy, script out the nuts and bolts of execution, and realize goals.
Wondertime Magazine, Disney Publishing
Jan, 2008 —
Jul, 2008
(6 months)
Copyedit manuscripts and page proofs at all stages of development; maintain magazine style guide.
Wave Books and Verse Press
May, 2001 —
Dec, 2007
(over 6 years)
Manage operations of nonprofit poetry publisher, working with authors, distributors, book designers, literary and trade organizations, press, printers, and customers. Grantwriting and budget management; hire, train, and manage interns; manage distributor relationship and fulfillment, including direct subscription program; negotiate contracts and permissions; screen submissions; coordinate production. Major initiatives included work on the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour (50 cities in 50 days, 2006) and a successful application to the NEA for organization funding.
Portfolio
"A massive brain trauma robbed fashionable young Louise of the shallow currency she'd banked on all her life, and the resulting struggle is a page-turner in which a person's very soul deepens before your eyes. Louise: Amended rewards a reader's time—a must rea... read more
John Ashbery writes: “Christian Hawkey’s poetry is landscape poetry in the true sense of landscape—not a segment of the Earth’s surface posing for its picture, but an open, undetermined space in which all kinds of crazy mental and physical things are going abo... read more
Much anticipated in poetry circles, this debut poetry collection by the well-known younger poet and critic rises to the occasion, at once bold and tender, experimental and clear. Jean Valentine writes: "New consciousnesses shine here in delicate, angry, ecstat... read more
Nakayasu’s book-length poem uses its tumbling dramatic form to create a new inquiry into "character," "time," "place," "direction " and other elements. Lyrical language and personal, engaging voices take the reader on a dizzying and affecting journey through a... read more
Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009)Winner of the American Book Award (2009)In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the se... read more
If the book of Revelations had been scribbled in the diary of a precocious fourteen-year-old girl, the prophecies might look something like Awe. Dorothea Lasky is a daring truth-teller, naming names and boldly pushing the boundaries of confession. The secrets ... read more
One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literaturehonest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.”Dennis CooperEileen Myles has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB in 1974. BU... read more
Two bombs over Japan. Two shells. One called Little Boy, one called Fat Man. Three days apart. The one implicit in the other. Brothers.Named one of Flavorwire's best independent books of 2014, and winner of the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize.In this strikin... read more
"Robert Perisic depicts, with acerbic wit, a class of urban elites who are trying to reconcile their nineties rebellion with the reality of present-day Croatia. . . . The characters' snide remarks could easily sound cynical but the novel has a levity informed ... read more
“Fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find themselves challenged and entertained by a brilliant writer with a very fertile imagination.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"When he turns to prose, this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet exhibits... read more
In this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. Tate′s surrealist style strik... read more
Zaharieva packs several genres into one, including but not limited to pastoral idyll, sexual coming-of-age story, and feminist memoir. Ultimately, she presents life in all its messiness and possibility, vivid enough for the reader to almost taste.”Publishers... read more
Rochester, 1999; a mystery surrounding arson; a hilarious and heart-breaking friendship based on a language of inside jokes.". . . Bill Peters belongs in the ranks of serious literary artists."New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice"One of the most invent... read more
A photography-driven fiction about coming of age in the creep show of south Florida's swamps and strip malls. "This illustrated novel about growing up poor near the swamps of South Florida has a lurid vibrancy."New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide, Dwight Garne... read more
Named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and Vanity Fair "Rifles through fear, identity, meaning, and cultural memory in forty-four short, surreal stories." Vanity Fair"By turns moving, funny, and maddening . very much in the key of Donald Barthelme." The New York T... read more
