Erin Wilcox is a writer, developmental editor, copyeditor, and content designer. The former nonfiction editor of Drunken Boat and copyeditor for Alaska Quarterly Review, she has edited renowned literary authors including Grace Paley, Marie Sheppard Williams, Martín Espada, Nancy Lord, Dorianne Laux, Abigail Thomas, and 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo. Erin's editing specialties include literary, feminist, and speculative fiction, as well as memoir and children's books. She works primarily for publishers such as Nightfire and Tordotcom. She writes for various trade and scholarly publications including Copyediting, The Rumpus, and The Freelancer. A former board member of the Editorial Freelancers Association and founder of the EFAs Arizona chapter, she wrote the EFA booklet Building Successful Freelancer-Client Relationships (2016). Erin works directly with authors to prepare their manuscripts for submission; with self-publishing authors in need of an editor for their production team; and with agents and publishers in need of copyediting, proofreading, and manuscript development. Her independent clients have sold projects to major publishers including Random House and McFarland. Works she edited for publishers have been nominated for Hugo and Pushcart Awards. Erin's fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have been featured in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Crack the Spine, Praxis: Gender and Cultural Critiques, Cirque, The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press), and Cold Flashes (University of Alaska Press). Erin holds an MFA in creative writing and literary arts from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and a BA in comparative literature from UC Berkeley. Her story "Half a World Away" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. copy editor, sf/f, fantasy
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