Poets & Writers interviewed me for their Agents & Editors Recommend series here. I recommended aiming for something like generosity in writing, and a few different ways someone might mean that.

Publishers Weekly asked me what’s so great about Edgar Gomez’s High-Risk Homosexual; I got to gush about the book here for their preview of the ABA’s Indies Introduce panel.

Soft Skull Press and Catapult books

 

For Soft Skull Press, I acquired and edited:

 
 

Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

"In Touching the Art, Sycamore responds to the call for white artists to reckon with our pasts, our connections to power and privilege. The scalpel she takes to her own family, both the education, access, and love of art they gave her, and the intense and ongoing violence they did to her and cannot face, is brutally laser sharp. In all the messily queer craftsmanship we've come to expect from her prose, she offers us a handhold and a way forward: Touch the art, fuck it up, get free. Art is a part of our liberation and our future, and Sycamore is trying to write us all free." —Joseph Osmundson, author of Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Reviews: The Believer, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus, Jewish Book Council, The Brooklyn Rail, Passport magazine, Out Front Magazine, Paradise is Not for Sale

Other press: Los Angeles Times, Shondaland, Seattle Times, Ms. Magazine, Seattle Art Museum blog, Lilith magazine, Between the Covers podcast, On the Record podcast

 
 

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems by Taylor Byas

Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award

Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Poetry

“This impressive debut is a celebration of Chicago’s South Side, telling the story of a Black woman’s quest for self-discovery. Every poem is alive with the beauty and intimacy of growing up in the city . . . [A] stunning achievement whose lyricism echoes some of Chicago’s greatest poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks and Eve L. Ewing.” —Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books

Reviews: Booklist (starred review), The Poetry Question. Other press: Publishers Weekly, Chicago Review of Books, Academy of American Poets, Literary Hub, The Millions, TriQuarterly, Ms. Magazine, Chicago magazine, Chicago Tribune

 
 

The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis by Emma Bolden

An Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year

“Emma Bolden’s The Tiger and the Cage is a memoir written as an investigation, a dive into what it means to be a woman caught in a medical establishment that doesn’t listen to women. I read this book in a fury. Bolden’s imagery is stark and vivid, and the prose moves in a spiral, encircling her pain, her confusion, and her strength. This book will make you laugh, cry, scream, and bleach your hair while you sing along loudly to Tori Amos. I am so grateful The Tiger and the Cage exists and so grateful for Emma Bolden’s generosity.” —Emme Lund, author of The Boy With a Bird in His Chest

Reviews: Lit Hub, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Other press: Salon, Shondaland, Electric Literature, Poets & Writers, Catapult, Motherly, BuzzFeed, Book Riot

 
 

MONARCH: A Novel by Candice Wuehle

Shortlisted for the 2022 Over the Rainbow Recommended Book List

Named a Best Book by NPR, Morning News, Lambda Literary, CrimeReads, and more

“Poet Candice Wuehle's irresistibly weird debut novel MONARCH is the kind of book that you want to start reading again immediately after turning the last page — not just to trace the conspiracy at its heart, but to appreciate how its kaleidoscope of beauty pageants, Y2K anxieties, famous dead girls, and deep state machinations synthesizes into an exploration of what makes up a self.” —Kristen Martin, NPR

Reviews: NPR, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Review of Books, ZYZZYVA, NYLON, Little Village, Pink Plastic House, Daily Nexus, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus. Other press: CrimeReads, NYLON, Bustle, Literary Hub, Lambda Literary, Tor.com, Dennis Cooper's blog, The Daily Iowan, Largehearted Boy, Luna Luna Magazine, Cleveland Review of Books, The Morning News’s Tournament of Books

 
 

High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir by Edgar Gomez

Winner of the American Book Award

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography

An Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award

“A breath of fresh air .... High-Risk Homosexual deals with some titanic questions. What is Latinidad? What is machismo? What does it mean to be a man, never mind a queer man? By its own admission, the book doesn’t have all the answers, but it makes a compelling case that they will come from the razor-sharp queers living in the margins.” —John Paul Brammer, New York Times

Reviews: New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Latino Book Review, Bitch, Lambda Literary, Publishers Weekly (starred review), Kirkus. Other press: American Booksellers Association, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, USA Today, NYLON, Poets & Writers, BOMB, shondaland, Vogue, The Rumpus, Queerty, TODAY, NBC News, Los Angeles Times

 
 

What to Miss When: Poems by Leigh Stein

Winner, Best Jewish Poetry, The Best Jewish Books of 5781

“Satire and humor are some of the hardest things to pull off in poetry and Stein does it wonderfully in her new book What to Miss When. These reflect our current selves, in all their online messiness and glory.” —Gabriel Dozal, BOMB

NPR, BOMB, Bustle, The Rumpus, NYLON, Alma (awarded Best Jewish Poetry), Triangle House, Sixth Finch, The Voracious Bibliophile, What to Read If newsletter, Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire, Lit Hub & Otherppl podcast, Lit Hub & I’m a Writer But podcast

 

I served as in-house editor for:

I provided editorial support for:

 

In a collaboration between Catapult and PEN America, I co-edited (in 2021, 2022, and 2023) and assisted on:

 

Best Debut Short Stories 2023: The PEN America Dau Prize edited by Summer Farah and Sarah Lyn Rogers. Judges: Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz. Winning writers: Dailihana E. Alfonseca, Ren Arcamone, Sonia Feldman, Stephenjohn Holgate, Faire Holliday, Mengyin Lin, Verity McKay, Clara Mundy, Jo Saleska, Annabelle Ulaka, Lisa Wartenberg Vélez, Patrick J. Zhou. Out 9/26/23!

“These stories made me seen, made me heard, and did so with such care and beauty, I am ever hopeful that art and literature still possess the capacity to slow time, to change a life.” —Dantiel W. Moniz, author of Milk Blood Heat

Praise for the series: Booklist, ZYZZYVA, Kirkus Reviews, Poets & Writers

 

Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize (2019 — 2022)

(co-edited with Yuka Igarashi in 2021 and 2022)

“a tantalizing glimpse of the work of tomorrow’s literary luminaries . . . the most exciting debut fiction published in literary magazines in the past year.” —Poets & Writers

“While serving as a fresh, delightful collection of short fiction that looks to our literary future with promise, Best Debut Short Stories serves as a timely exploration of an array of themes that speak to our current reality.” —Cade Johnson, ZYZZYVA

Kirkus, Poets & Writers, ZYZZYVA, The Rumpus (2020, 2019), Book Riot, The Root, Debutiful (2021, 2020, 2019), PopMatters, Craft Literary, WNYC

Catapult magazine

For Catapult magazine, I edited:

Essays and interviews

Short stories and poems

 
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The Rumpus

As Fiction Editor at The Rumpus: "City of Foundlings" by Douglas Silver, "Prescriptions" by Ruth Madievsky, "My Name Is Jean-Pierre and I Am Still an End Table" by Dana Schwartz, "The Whole World Is Desert" by Lori Sambol Brody, "Mutual Exploitation" by Phoebe Rusch, "Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on Each Side)" by Joseph Santaella Vidal, "The Pet Store" by Siobhan May, "The Barbecue" by Aiden Arata, "Grace" by Brandon Taylor, "Mustard Seeds" by Maggie Tokuda Hall, "Day of the Dead" by Theresa Duve Morales, "Straw House" by Becky Mandelbaum, "The Anniversary" by Cathy Mellett, "Bellevonia Beautee" by Lauren Friedlander (2018 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers), "Maybe There's This Dragon?" by Ashley Moore, "Summer of Families" by Scott Broker, "Bob and Dave" by Kamil Ashan, "Salt" by C.A. Carey, "How to Become a Tiger" by Katie Darby Mullins, "April, 1968" by Paul Justison, "State Facts for the New Age" by Amy Sauber (2017 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers), "Mandarin Imperial" by Elysha Chang, "Monkey Men" by Chris Vanjonack, "On Documentation" by Joselyn Takacs, "Service Area" by Matthew Kirkpatrick, "As Soon as I Stop" by Brad Collins, "Swans and Other Lies" by Anita Felicelli, "The Ghosts of St. Louis" by Emily Koon, "People and Oranges and People" by Hugh Smith, "Grow" by Ishelle Payer, "Divina" by Maria Theuma. 

As Assistant Fiction Editor at The Rumpus: "Like Mike" by Dave Mulis, "Lera" by Julia Phillips, "Out on the Coast" by David Rice, selections from 2013 – 2015 for a now-defunct app called The Weekly Rumpus, archived in part here. 

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As Production Editor (2017 – 18) and Writing Mentor (2012 – 2018) for Society of Young Inklings, I provided edit letters, copyedits, proofreads, and interior layout design for the annual Inklings Book anthology (a collection of short fiction and poems by students in grades 1 through 8), as well as middle-grade novels by and for young writers.