Max Winter – Editor

Proofreading and editing of documents ranging in style and purpose from business to personal to academic, in styles including Chicago, CSE, APA, MLA, AP, and Harvard; working under strict and often tight deadlines; over 4 million words proofed to date

Freelance proofreading and copyediting for current titles, including travel guides, cookbooks, humor, and nonfiction on environmental topics

Interviews with directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, production directors, special effects artists, and other personnel about film and TV; shepherding of video essay series into release on the site

Freelance proofreading of current adult and children’s titles

Illustrator for The Rumpus—including several logos and column-specific pieces for Jerry Stahl, Danielle Trussoni, and Mandy Len Catron—and an online journal called Cosmonauts Avenue (200-plus illustrations)

Editing, writing, and scheduling of film and TV blog posts, both written articles and video essays, for Indiewire’s Press Play blog

Writing, editing, proofreading, fact-checking for projects in Reading and Social Studies, Grades K-12: instruction, assessment (including both passage and item writing), leveled readers, and supplemental texts, SE and TE

Co-editing an independent publisher of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and drama; editing, publicity, design, and marketing work for all titles; 15 published titles to date; one title nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in Poetry; two titles reviewed in The New York Times; several covered in Publishers Weekly; trade and independent review coverage achieved for all titles; recurring appearance on the Small Press Distribution Bestseller List

Reading and evaluation of manuscripts for national novel contest, sponsored by Amazon in partnership with Publishers Weekly, for which the prize was publication by Penguin USA

Teaching a workshop for graduate students in creative writing, editing a best-of anthology for Tigertail Magazine, hosting a reading for the publication

St. Petersburg (2005); Vilnius (2009); Montreal (2011). As Editor in Residence: Facilitating the judging of a nationwide poetry contest administered by Summer Literary Seminars in partnership with Fence Magazine; giving two presentations on magazine publishing for students in the program. As Writer in Residence: moderating craft-related panels, speaking with students, presenting a reading at the conclusion of the residency

St. Petersburg (2005); Vilnius (2009); Montreal (2011). As Editor in Residence: Facilitating the judging of a nationwide poetry contest administered by Summer Literary Seminars in partnership with Fence Magazine; giving two presentations on magazine publishing for students in the program. As Writer in Residence: moderating craft-related panels, speaking with students, presenting a reading at the conclusion of the residency

Freelance proofreading for current titles, such as Roberto Bolaño’s Romantic Dogs, Robert Walser's The Assistant, Javier Marías’s Written Lives, and Steiner at the New Yorker

(Was Development Editor 2004–2007) Overseeing development and editing of Reading and Social Studies Coach, Jumpstart, Workout, Progress Coach and Buckle Down state-focused assessment textbooks for Grades 2–11, in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arizona—12–14 books per year, 200-plus pages each on average, including one series (Connecticut) which was nominated for an award by the AEP and two others (New York and Pennsylvania) which remain lead sellers; editing of two different products built around the Common Core State Standards (an assessment-based textbook and a modified basal); development of a content management system for over 40 books; working with Sales Department to plan strategy; interacting with educators to fine-tune products; supervising freelance writers and editors; tracking invoices and contracts for vendors; monitoring of state-specific curriculum changes; managing revisions for adherence to standards

(As Poetry Editor) Acceptance and rejection of poetry for biannual literary magazine; screening of book contest manuscripts; assistance at events. (As Associate Editor, 1999–2001) Arranging meetings, coordinating mailings, proofreading, research, taking of meeting minutes, editorial duties

Editing, writing, copyediting of packaging projects; hiring and supervision of freelance writers; trafficking manuscripts through production from writing to bound book stage; tracking invoices and contracts; Clients: Scott Foresman (Math, Grades K–3); McGraw-Hill (Social Studies, Grades 2–6; Readers, Grades 3–6); Houghton Mifflin (Math, K–1; Readers, Grades 3–5); Harcourt (Readers, Grades 2–5); Scholastic (Readers, Grades 2–6); SRA (Reading, Teacher’s Edition, Grades 1–2); Zaner-Bloser (Handwriting, Grades K–6); Newbridge (Readers, Grades 1–5, with accompanying Teacher's Guides); Pearson Education (ESL/Writing, Grades 5–6)

Teaching a weekly workshop to undergraduate students selected from an applicant pool

Reading and reviewing one novel or story collection biweekly; preparation of galleys for fact-checking stage

Completion of a book-length manuscript; evaluation and discussion of colleagues’ work weekly; organization of an off-campus reading series; supervising an Independent Writing Project for an undergraduate student

Editing and writing projects for D.C. Heath, Time-Life for Children, and Zaner-Bloser; research; manuscript trafficking; proofreading, copy editing; development of project proposals

Typing, filing, phones, mail; proofreading, checking mechanicals, line editing; manuscript evaluation; backad, flap, and catalog copy; ushering manuscripts through production; manuscript trafficking

Writing reviews of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for publications including The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Bookforum, and others.

Intermittent. Proofreading, fact-checking, and writing articles for the Columbia Encyclopedia (through Chernow Editorial Services); reviewing poetry anthologies for Columbia Granger’s Guide to Poetry Anthologies; editing and word processing Columbia Dictionary of Quotations; fact-checking and proofreading Granger’s Index to Poetry