Careers in Publishing: Working with Fiction
Join our editing certificate online panel of fiction editors and writers as they share how they got their start and the paths they took to get to where they are now.

About the Past Event
Many people dream of working with fiction, but it can often appear an unrealistic goal for those just starting out in publishing. Join our editing certificate online panel of fiction editors and writers as they share how they got their start and the paths they took to get to where they are now. Our panelists will share advice from their own careers, discuss how the publishing industry has changed, and talk realistically about the outlook of working in fiction. There will be time at the end for a brief Q&A with the audience.
Speaking at the event

Kelli Christiansen, MLA
President, Bibliobibuli Professional Editorial Services, Inc.
Kelli Christiansen has spent more than two decades in publishing, as a bookseller, an editor, a literary agent, and a writer. She began her career as a bookseller before becoming a journalist and then serving as an acquisitions editor with Publications International, Ltd./Consumer Guide, as a senior...
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Lily Davenport, BA, MFA
Writer and Editor
Lily Davenport (she/her) is a second-year PhD student in fiction at the University of Cincinnati (where she's also a reader for the Cincinnati Review), and a freelance copyeditor and proofreader. Previously, she's been a comics editor at Action, Spectacle!, the fiction editor for Volume 46 of the Bl...
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Vinita Hampton Wright, MA
Editing instructor
Vinita Hampton Wright recently retired from a thirty-year career as a book editor. She is the author of fiction and nonfiction books, including The Soul Tells a Story (InterVarsity Press, 2005) about the spiritual-creative process and The Art of Spiritual Writing (Loyola Press, 2013). She continues...
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Chris Lowe
Director of Student Success, Northern Illinois University College of Education
Christopher Lowe is the author of Make Some Wretched Fool to Pay (University of Louisiana Press), Those Like Us: Stories (SFASU Press), and three prose chapbooks, including A Guest of the Program, winner of the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Prize. His writing has appeared widely in journals...
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