Editing

Below is a list of selected book projects on which I’ve worked as editing supervisor, copyeditor, or proofreader. All University Press of Kentucky titles are denoted with the abbreviation “UPK.”

POETRY AND FICTION

  • Carver, Willie Edward Taylor, Jr., Gay Poems for Red States (UPK—copyeditor)
  • Colburn, Nadia, I Say the Sky: Poems (UPK—copyeditor)
  • Driskell, Kathleen, Next Door to the Dead: Poems (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Finney, Nikky, Heartwood (new edition) (UPK—proofreader)
  • Grubbs, Morris, and Mary Ellen Miller (eds.), Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne Miller Reader (UPK)
  • Hicks, Jane, Driving with the Dead: Poems (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Hudson, Patricia, Traces: A Novel (UPK—copyeditor)
  • Lyon, George Ella, Many-Storied House: Poems (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • scott, darlene anita, Marrow: Poems (UPK—copyeditor)
  • Still, James, Chinaberry (paperback edition) (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Stoykova, Katerina, Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House: Poems (UPK—copyeditor)
  • Survant, Joe, The Land They Dreamed: Poems (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Walker, Frank X, Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (expanded new edition) (UPK—copyeditor)
  • White, Artress Bethany, A Black Doe in the Anthropocene (UPK—copyeditor)

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • Hello, Star! (KiwiCo Press—proofreader)
  • Hello, Atom! (KiwiCo Press—proofreader)
  • Hello, Cell! (KiwiCo Press—proofreader)
  • Kellan Gobbles the Alphabet (KiwiCo—proofreader)
  • Kellan’s Colorful Day (KiwiCo—proofreader)
  • Kellan Counts to Ten (KiwiCo—developmental editor)
  • Poppy’s Shape Search (KiwiCo—proofreader)
  • Poppy Plays Hide-and-Seek (KiwiCo—proofreader)
  • Lourenço, Estrela (illus.), Silly Gilly Is Mixed Up (KiwiCo Press—copyeditor)
  • Reeves, Diane Lindsey, and Patty Benson (illus.), Who Makes That? (KiwiCo Press—copyeditor)

COOKBOOKS

  • Fox, Minnie, The Blue Grass Cook Book (new paperback edition) (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Hines, Duncan (edited by Louis Hatchett), Adventures in Good Cooking (new paperback edition) (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Hines, Duncan (edited by Louis Hatchett), The Dessert Book (new paperback edition) (UPK—editing supervisor)

FILM STUDIES, PERFORMING ARTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT

  • Barton, Ruth, Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Brideson, Cynthia and Sara Brideson, Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Biography of Broadway’s Greatest Producer (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Kerzoncuf, Alain and Charles Barr, Hitchcock Lost and Found: The Forgotten Films (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • McBride, Joseph, Hawks on Hawks (paperback edition) (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Sragow, Michael, Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master (paperback edition) (UPK—editing supervisor)

ART AND LITERARY CRITICISM

  • Cruz, Rachelle (ed.), Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading, Discussing, and Creating Comics (Cognella—proofreader)

PHILOSOPHY

  • Arp, Robert, Adam Barkman, and James McRae, The Philosophy of Ang Lee (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Frank, Jason (ed.), A Political Companion to Herman Melville (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • McKenzie, Jonathan, The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau: Privatism and the Practice of Philosophy (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto, and Simon Stow, A Political Companion to John Steinbeck (UPK—editing supervisor)

ASIAN STUDIES

  • Craft, Stephen G., American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Omelicheva, Mariya Y., Democracy in Central Asia: Competing Perspectives and Alternative Strategies (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Ziegler, Charles (ed.), Civil Society and Politics in Central Asia (UPK—editing supervisor)

CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY

  • Finley, Mary Lou, Bernard LaFayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith (eds.), The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Haviland, Sara Rzeszutek, James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • LaFayette, Bernard, Jr., and Kathryn Lee Johnson, In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Todd, Lisa Anderson, For a Voice and the Vote: My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Woodley, Jenny, Art for Equality: The NAACP’s Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights (UPK—editing supervisor)

WOMEN’S STUDIES

  • Kessler-Harris, Alice, A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences (updated edition) (UPK—editing supervisor)

SOCIOLOGY

  • Cann, Candi K., Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century (UPK—editing supervisor)

MILITARY HISTORY AND MILITARY STUDIES

  • Epkenhans, Michael, Jörg Hillmann, and Frank Nagler (eds.), Jutland: World War I’s Greatest Naval Battle (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Coffman, Edward M., The Embattled Past: Reflections on Military History (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Galvin, General John R., USA (Ret.), Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier’s Memoir (UPK—editing supervisor)

SOUTHERN HISTORY AND APPALACHIAN STUDIES

  • Eller, Ronald D, Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945 (paperback edition with new afterword) (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Ferrell, Ann, Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in the New Century (UPK—editing supervisor)
  • Lussana, Sergio, My Brother Slaves: Friendship. Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South (UPK—editing supervisor)