This Sunday—for subscribers only—we’ll be featuring two stellar young New York editors: Pilar Garcia-Brown and Jenny Xu. They’ll be talking about the current state of publishing, issues of diversity, what they look for in manuscripts —and will happily take your questions!
Please subscribe today then mark your calendars for Sunday, May 16 at 1 PM EDT (10 AM PDT). You’ll be sent a Zoom link two days before the event.
PILAR GARCIA-BROWN(she/her) is an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, concentrating on voice-driven literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction, with a focus on female stories, LGBTQ stories, and diverse representation. She's interested in books that tackle urgent, contemporary social and cultural themes in an engaging, irreverent way. Recent and forthcoming titles include: Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour; Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage; The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman; In Sensorium by Tanaïs; and NBCC award winner You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano, among others. She's from Los Angeles and now lives in Brooklyn.
JENNY XU is an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where she edits non-fiction and poetry. She mentors through Representation Matters Mentorship Program and PoC in Publishing, and is on the board of MassLEAP, a youth poetry nonprofit. Some of her authors include David Yi, Lorelei Lee, and Natasha Tretheway.
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Sunday conversation with NY Editors!
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Hi Everyone,
This Sunday—for subscribers only—we’ll be featuring two stellar young New York editors: Pilar Garcia-Brown and Jenny Xu. They’ll be talking about the current state of publishing, issues of diversity, what they look for in manuscripts —and will happily take your questions!
Please subscribe today then mark your calendars for Sunday, May 16 at 1 PM EDT (10 AM PDT). You’ll be sent a Zoom link two days before the event.
PILAR GARCIA-BROWN (she/her) is an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, concentrating on voice-driven literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction, with a focus on female stories, LGBTQ stories, and diverse representation. She's interested in books that tackle urgent, contemporary social and cultural themes in an engaging, irreverent way. Recent and forthcoming titles include: Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour; Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage; The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman; In Sensorium by Tanaïs; and NBCC award winner You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano, among others. She's from Los Angeles and now lives in Brooklyn.
JENNY XU is an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where she edits non-fiction and poetry. She mentors through Representation Matters Mentorship Program and PoC in Publishing, and is on the board of MassLEAP, a youth poetry nonprofit. Some of her authors include David Yi, Lorelei Lee, and Natasha Tretheway.
I hope you’ll join us!
Abrazos,
Cristina
PS: Many more online events to come!
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