Olivia Batker Pritzker – Editor

As a writer, editor, and publisher, I have a deep familiarity with all sides of the writing and publishing process. I have nearly a decade of experience editing fiction, nonfiction, and genre-defying books, and have worked as an editor at three publishing companies in addition to many years of freelance work. I also hold an M.F.A. in writing from Otis College of Art and Design and currently teach writing at Pratt Institute.

In 2019 I cofounded an independent press which focuses on feminist horror. As publisher and editor I oversaw the development of our books through the entire editorial, production, and marketing process, and worked closely with authors from the developmental editing stages through line editing. Our books have been nominated for a variety of awards including multiple Bram Stoker Awards.

I am an enthusiastic and dedicated editor who loves working with authors to shape their work into the best possible version of itself. Whether it’s outlining, plotting, character development, or world building in the early stages, providing a meticulous copy edit in the final stages, or any of the work in between, I place a high importance on creating a dialogue with the writers I work with and will utilize my skills and experience to make your book stand out from the early stages to the final polish.

Although I've worked across many genres, I have a particular interest in speculative fiction and thrillers/suspense/dark psychological fiction, as well as queer narratives and stories which defy convention. From commercial to literary, I get excited by a richly detailed world, an innovative idea, a strong narrative voice. Give me your reimagined fairy tales, your unlikable female characters, your post-apocalyptic ghost stories. Let's dig in!

"Olivia is an excellent developmental editor, with an eye for nuance and a great feel for developing characters and plot. She always has a fun and precise way to attack plot problems, and she's able to tease out meaning from my most nebulous of ideas. From crafting plot matrixes to talking through character development, I couldn't have written my novel without her." — Halley Sutton, author of The Lady Upstairs (Putnam, 2020)