Alexandra Shelley has over 30 years of editing experience. She worked as an independent editor with author Kathryn Stockett on The Help, and with Martha Hall Kelly on both Lilac Girls and Lost Roses.
Interviews
“The Writer Who Is Talking Is Not the Same Person Who Writes the Books”
May, 1989. Horacio Castellanos Moya is working as a journalist in Mexico, reporting in exile on the civil war in El Salvador. His debut novel, La diáspora (released in the US for the first time […]
“Chips and Salsa Will Always Have a Place in Our Hearts and Bodies”
If anything, the hat is God’s intervention, through my hands.
From History to Poetry, and Back Again (Pt. Two)
You can’t write the book that you think other people wanna see. It’s not worth it.
From History to Poetry, and Back Again (Pt. One)
Tyehimba Jess earned his BA from the University of Chicago and his MFA from New York University. He is the author of leadbelly, a biographical poetry collection about the history of the blues musician, and […]
Plates in the Air
Julia Fierro plays many roles—in her works of fiction and life. She is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer (June 2017) and Cutting Teeth (2014) as well as the founder of The […]
Finishing School
“It had to be written quickly, as these things are.”