Nicole Nyhan – Editor

Nicole Nyhan provides editorial services to authors and trade publishers. With over ten years of experience in independent book and magazine publishing, she has served on the editorial staffs of Grove Atlantic, Atavist Books, and Other Press, and has provided editorial/research services to New Directions Publishing and Algonquin Books, among others. Throughout her book publishing career, she has worked with acclaimed authors including Karen Russell, Akwaeke Emezi, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Gay Talese, Jesse Eisenberg, Charmaine Craig, Levison Wood, Donna Leon, B. J. Novak, Dominic Dromgoole, Andrea Gillies, Barney Rosset, and Ruth Joffre. At Grove, she assisted with the early launch of Freeman’s magazine.

Most recently, Nicole was managing editor of Conjunctions, where she worked with hundreds of authors, both emerging and established, and oversaw every aspect of the publication process for the biannual print anthologies and weekly online magazine. While in this role, she was also coordinator of the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series at Bard College and organized events with Valeria Luiselli, Joanna Scott, Richard Powers, Elizabeth Hand, Laura van den Berg, Carole Maso, Karan Mahajan, Sigrid Nunez, Peter Orner, and Diane Ackerman.

Nicole edited and introduced a selection of letters from James Tiptree, Jr. to Joanna Russ that was published in Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens (excerpt available on Literary Hub). She was interviewed on behalf of Conjunctions in The Best Small Fictions: 2019 (Sonder Press). She has been a reader for the NYC Emerging Writer Fellowship; a guest editor at the Atlanta Writers Conference; and a panelist/speaker at NYU’s Creative Writing Program, Bard College, University at Albany, SUNY, Grand Valley State University, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and Atlas Studios.