I’m a book editor and publisher from Portland, Oregon who’s been working in the New York publishing industry since 2007. I’m currently the Associate Publisher of McNally Editions, a new publishing line launched in early 2022 by visionary bookseller Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson Books in New York. Releasing 12-16 titles a year, McNally Editions focuses on unduly overlooked books that feel fresh and surprising today.

In a consulting role, I work with ZE Books as Publishing and Marketing Director. Founded by entrepreneur and ZE Records cofounder Michael Zilkha in 2019, ZE Books publishes extraordinary literary and visual works by groundbreaking writers, artists, and musicians. Their growing list of authors includes Glenn O'Brien, Nick Flynn, Mary Gaitskill, Roni Horn, Jonathan Lethem, and more to come.

From 2014–2022, I worked at Restless Books, an independent, nonprofit publisher based in Brooklyn that specializes in international fiction, narrative nonfiction, and books for young readers. In my role as Editorial and Marketing Director, I led all publishing operations across departments, including editorial, business strategy, marketing, publicity, sales, distribution, and foreign rights. During my tenure, Restless published more than 100 titles from over 40 countries and translated into English from 26 languages. I shaped Restless’s flagship literary prize, The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing; the award-winning Yonder imprint of international books for young readers; and the company’s transition into a 501(c)3 nonprofit. I edited and shepherded through publication a brilliant array of work by international authors including Rivka Galchen, Grace Talusan, Yishai Sarid, Rajiv Mohabir, Giacomo Sartori, Fernanda Torres, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gabriela Wiener, Shahriar Mandanipour, and many others.

Before Restless, I worked at the literary startup Bookish, which launched in 2013 with a curated recommendation engine hailed as the “Netflix for books,” original content about new and notable books and authors, user-generated virtual bookshelves, and retail of books in all formats from all major publishers. As the literary editor of Bookish, I curated four daily content verticals—Literature and Fiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Mysteries and Thrillers, and Cookbooks—commissioning and editing articles, conducting interviews, writing original pieces, programming content, and brainstorming digital strategy.

Prior to Bookish, I was an Assistant Editor at Little, Brown and Company, where I worked alongside Editor-in-Chief Judy Clain from 2007 to 2012. I did extensive editorial work on many Little, Brown titles, several of which have been award-winners and New York Times bestsellers, including Emma Donoghue’s Room, Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette, and Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish. (See my Books Edited list.)

Since 2012, I’ve worked as a freelance book editor, bringing my extensive publishing expertise to bear as well as my experience being “on the other side of the desk” as a writer. I assist writers at all stages of their careers, from aspiring novelists, to journalists and memoirists working on their first books, to established authors of fiction and nonfiction. See my Books Edited list for a partial client list.

I have a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Pomona College, and a Master’s degree in English and Fiction Writing from the University of Texas at Austin, where I received a James A. Michener Scholarship. At UT, I was the editor of the newly founded national literary magazine Bat City Review, where I published writers including Colm Tóibín, Patrick McGrath, James Tate, Billy Collins, Mahmoud Darwish, George Saunders, and Aimee Bender.

I currently serve on the Advisory Committee of Literary Hub and the Board of the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative. I live in Brooklyn and Upstate New York.