Editing

Below is a list of selected book projects on which I’ve worked as editing supervisor, copy editor, 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—copy editor)
  • Colburn, Nadia, I Say the Sky: Poems (UPK—copy editor)
  • Driskell, Kathleen, Next Door to the Dead: Poems (UPK)
  • 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)
  • Hudson, Patricia, Traces: A Novel (UPK—copy editor)
  • Lyon, George Ella, Many-Storied House: Poems (UPK)
  • scott, darlene anita, Marrow: Poems (UPK—copy editor)
  • Still, James, Chinaberry (paperback edition) (UPK)
  • Stoykova, Katerina, Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House: Poems (UPK—copy editor)
  • Survant, Joe, The Land They Dreamed: Poems (UPK)
  • Walker, Frank X, Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (expanded new edition) (UPK—copy editor)

CHILDREN’S BOARD 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)

COOKBOOKS

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

FILM STUDIES, PERFORMING ARTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT

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

ART AND LITERARY CRITICISM

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

PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

  • Arp, Robert, Adam Barkman, and James McRae, The Philosophy of Ang Lee (UPK)
  • Banning, Lance (ed. Todd Estes), Founding Visions: The Ideals, Individuals, and Intersections that Created America (UPK)
  • Frank, Jason (ed.), A Political Companion to Herman Melville (UPK)
  • McKenzie, Jonathan, The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau: Privatism and the Practice of Philosophy (UPK)
  • Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto, and Simon Stow, A Political Companion to John Steinbeck (UPK)

ASIAN STUDIES

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

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)
  • Haviland, Sara Rzeszutek, James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement (UPK)
  • LaFayette, Bernard, Jr., and Kathryn Lee Johnson, In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma (UPK)
  • Todd, Lisa Anderson, For a Voice and the Vote: My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (UPK)
  • Woodley, Jenny, Art for Equality: The NAACP’s Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights (UPK)

WOMEN’S STUDIES

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

SOCIOLOGY

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

MILITARY HISTORY AND MILITARY STUDIES

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

SOUTHERN HISTORY AND APPALACHIAN STUDIES

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