zakia hb – Editor

I specialize in editing nonfiction books for a general audience. I've worked at an independent trade book publishing house for the last 13 years. We "publish in the public interest," with veteran and first-time authors alike, which makes the work very fulfilling. As a group, the books I've had the pleasure of working on editorially have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, been awarded the PEN/Galbraith Prize for Nonfiction and the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, and received attention from Booklist, the Boston Review, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, and the New York Review of Books. My goal is always to help shape book projects into the most compelling, resonant versions of themselves. My superpowers are patience and precision!