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Sarah Bowlin
Sarah Bowlin joined Henry Holt & Co. as an editor in 2010 after several years at Riverhead Books. At Riverhead, her authors included the internationally acclaimed Juan Gabriel Vásquez and the National Book Award nominated Salvatore Scibona, who was recently named among The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” young writers to watch, as well as the debut novelists Constance Squires, Ramona Ausubel, and Nick Dybek, among others. At Holt, she’s building a list of literary fiction and nonfiction with the forthcoming debuts The Land of Decoration (March 2012) by Grace McCleen, Autobiography of Us (2013) by Aria Beth Sloss, as well as new work from Sheila Heti, Rae Meadows, and Louis Bayard among others. She’s primarily interested in bold ideas and writing with a focus on literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, history, and some memoir. Born in the south, she has a degree in literature and history from New York University.
Denise Scarfi
Denise Scarfi is an Assistant Editor at W. W. Norton, where she has worked for over three years. She began at Norton as the assistant to Senior Editor Alane Salierno Mason and legendary poetry and literary fiction editor Carol Houck Smith shortly after graduating from NYU with a degree in Comparative Literature and a focus in Latin American literature. Her first acquisition for Norton, Gun Dealers’ Daughter by Gina Apostol, is a Borgesian literary puzzle set in the Marcos-era Philippines, and will be published in July 2012. She’s on the hunt for more quirky, innovative literary fiction, but also narrative nonfiction across the genres of memoir, intellectual and cultural history, politics (especially pertaining to feminism), Latin American history and culture, and a wealth of other subjects.
Mark Hummel
Mark Hummel's fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in numerous literary journals including The Bloomsbury Review, Dogwood, Fugue, Talking River Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, and Zone 3. He spent twenty years teaching fiction and essay writing in college classrooms, directing writing programs, and administrating a writers’ conference. Hummel is the editor of the online nonfiction magazine bioStories (www.biostories.com). An adjunct faculty member at Journeys School in Jackson, WY, his current writing is focused on novel length fiction.
Martin Rock
Martin Rock is a poet, editor, and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. His poems appear or are forthcoming in journals such as Black Warrior Review, Conduit, DIAGRAM, Forklift Ohio, La Petite Zine, The Tampa Review, Salamander, and others. With Phillip D. Ischy he wrote the collaborative chapbook, Fish, You Bird (Pilot Books), and his full length manuscript New Country was a recent finalist for Sarabande's Kathryn E. Morton prize for poetry. He is the designer and head editor of Loaded Bicycle, an online literary magazine of poetry, translation, and art, and he is Managing Editor of Epiphany, a literary journal. He holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where he was awarded a two-year fellowship and was Editor in Chief of Washington Square. Having lived for three and a half years in Japan, Martin is translating a book of Japanese poet Masato Tomobe's work into English. He teaches literature and writing at Berkeley College in Manhattan.
