Instructors

Susan Allan is the managing editor of the American Journal of Sociology, published by the University of Chicago Press. She holds a BS from Illinois State University.

Tyler Balli is the Managing Editor at Ohio University Press (OUP). At OUP he supervises all aspects of the editorial process, from manuscript cleanup to indexing. He specializes in working with scholarly material but has also edited fiction, trade nonfiction, poetry, scientific guide books, blog...

Sharon Brinkman is an editorial associate at the American Journal of Sociology. She has also worked as a manuscript editor at the Astrophysical Journal in the Press Journals Division. She is a freelance editor for several Elsevier medical journals, as well as for the Journal of Legal Studies and the...

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 with B. Dalton Bookseller (a division of Barnes & Noble) before becoming a journalist for a chain of suburban Chicago newspapers. She then served as an...

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...

David Davis is a research analyst at CCC, a major collective licensing organization. He blogs on copyright and licensing issues and previously held directorships in public libraries and corporate libraries. He holds joint Master’s degrees in library and information sciences and medieval European...

Siobhan Drummond is an editorial and production consultant. She was previously the managing editor at Chiron Publications and Triumph Books, as well as the production manager at the University of Chicago Press and Northwestern University Press. She holds degrees in music theory from the University...

Katherine Faydash is an editor and urban planner. She previously was an editor at Great Books Foundation, Loyola Press, and University of Chicago Press, and a practicum instructor for a course on human rights in Mexico at DePaul University’s College of Law. At UIC’s Great Cities Institute, she...

Kelly Finefrock began her career in publishing as an editorial apprentice at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. From there, she joined the Manuscript Editing Department, Books Division, at the University of Chicago Press, working as an editorial assistant, then manuscript...

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...

Maia is a project editor at Northwestern University Press, where she supervises the publication of scholarly monographs as well as fiction in translation and poetry. In her last position as an editor at the Art Institute of Chicago, she worked on special exhibition catalogs and in-gallery labels and...