Overview
As an editor, I focus on clarity and audience. My goal is to help you communicate with your reader exactly what you intend. I have worked on a wide variety of books; from nonfiction to young adult fantasy, from picture books to adult mysteries, and everything in between.
Parrish Turner is a queer essayist and editor who hails from Georgia. Turner’s work has been featured on Buzzfeed, Slate, Culture Trip, Gertrude Press, and The Rumpus. Turner was a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow and received his MFA from The New School in 2017. He is currently working as an Editorial Assistant for HarperCollins and freelancing out of Brooklyn and is always on the lookout for a great cup of tea.
Parrish Turner is a queer essayist and editor who hails from Georgia. Turner’s work has been featured on Buzzfeed, Slate, Culture Trip, Gertrude Press, and The Rumpus. Turner was a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow and received his MFA from The New School in 2017. He is currently working as an Editorial Assistant for HarperCollins and freelancing out of Brooklyn and is always on the lookout for a great cup of tea.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Children’s Non-Fiction
Comics Non-Fiction
Travel
Fiction
Children's
Comics & Graphic Novels
LGBTQ Fiction
Young Adult
Languages
English (US)
Awards
- We Need Diverse Books Grand Recipient
Work experience
HarperCollins
Aug, 2021 —
Present
McNally Jackson
Sep, 2019 —
Aug, 2021
(almost 2 years)
Culture Trip
May, 2018 —
Mar, 2019
(10 months)
Lambda Literary
Aug, 2015 —
May, 2018
(over 2 years)
Portfolio
Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
Your Wedding, Your Way is a resourceful handbook for modern couples who want to celebrate their marriage in a way that feels true to them and is financially reasonable, whether that's an elegant dinner party, a weekend camping trip in a national park, or a roa... read more
You are invited to the Alexandria Academy . . .Twelve-year-old Shad Hadid has never quite fit in. The other kids at school don’t understand him, so he spends most of his time alone, cooking for his teta and daydreaming of opening his own Arabic bakery full of ... read more
With Anna-Marie McLemore's signature lush prose, Dark and Deepest Red pairs the forbidding magic of a fairy tale with a modern story of passion and betrayal.Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they... read more
