Instructors

Susan Allan served as the managing editor of the American Journal of Sociology, published by the University of Chicago Press. Allan received the 2007 Graham School Excellence in Teaching Award.

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 is the acting managing editor 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 as a bookseller before becoming a journalist and then serving as an acquisitions editor with Publications International, Ltd./Consumer Guide, as a senior...

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...

Beth Duncan is a freelance copy editor in Chicago. She has more than thirty years of publishing experience as an editor and a copy editor. She was a senior copy editor at the Great Books Foundation and copy chief at Rotary International, and she has freelanced for clients in the nonprofit and for...

Katherine Faydash is an editor and urban planner. She was previously 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...

Jenny Gavacs is a freelance development editor with nine years’ experience, specializing in scholarly and crossover books. Previously she was an acquisitions editor at Stanford University Press, after also working in acquisitions at both Northwestern University Press and the University of Chicago...

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...

Leslie Keros is a freelance editor. She has previously worked at the American Bar Association, University of Chicago Press, and Little, Brown and Company.

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...

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...

Cathleen Small is an editor, writer, and instructor. She has edited hundreds of nonfiction books in the technical and legal fields, as well as dozens of novels, reports, and newsletters. She is the author of more than eighty nonfiction books for students in grades 5–12. She also teaches editing and...