The fifteenth and final volume in Graywolf's Art of series on the craft of writing, The Art of Revision takes the reader on a guided tour to this most mysterious of processes. This compact, insightful book references film, retconning, adaptations, plus classic and contemporary novels as it...
For the relaunch of this online literary magazine, the brief called for a wild, animal-themed design, with a gothic mood and feel. To emphasize their unique, one-of-a-kind logo, I opted for a modern, uncluttered aesthetic, with crisp, on-brand orange accents. The stage is now set to showcase...
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust, the first winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, took attentive care and patient collaboration across several years to bring to life. For this project, which mixed fantastical sea creatures, Mombasa’s crowded streets, and Hadrami culture, I relied...
Big hooks. Fuzzed-out guitars. Catchy lyrics. To bring a post-hardcore band’s album cover to life, I shot a series of on-location photos across the change of seasons, from fall to winter. The result gave the client a vast range to choose from, whether color-shifted photos or...
Anna Burns's virtuosic novel of the Troubles in Ireland, Milkman, was overlooked by major US publishers, to the point that when it landed on the Booker longlist, it did not have a US publishing partner. My acquisition and championing of the book brought it to the forefront...
Names for Light is an unconventional, nonlinear memoir that layers the interwoven stories of Myint's ancestors in Myanmar. I worked alongside Myint to develop the complex timeline and helped spur a breakthrough in the writing process, resulting in the book being longlisted for the PEN Open Book...
How does a prolific, genre-exploding artist outdo himself? By doing that which has never been done: writing three books disguised as one. As part of the Graywolf team, I coordinated a meticulous creative process to unite three novels with divergent endings in one cohesive package, complete...
Daisy Johnson's debut novel, Everything Under, made her the youngest ever finalist for the Booker Prize when it landed on the shortlist. ...
Esmé Weijun Wang's ground-breaking essay collection on living with schizoaffective disorder debuted at #8 on the New York Times best seller list, and has gone on to become an iconic book in the field of literature on mental illness. A thoughtful and sensitive approach to developmental editing,...
This debut story collection by Jamel Brinkley was a 2018 National Book Award Finalist. ...