5E, the collective of independent editors, is very pleased to announce the addition of two new members, Sulay Hernandez and Anne Horowitz, who join Patricia Mulcahy, Jane Rosenman, Judy Sternlight, and Leslie Wells. Our valued colleague Liz Van Hoose now turns her focus to her own editorial business.
With our new lineup, we look forward to helping both fiction and nonfiction writers craft their visions as well as adapt to the realities of a rapidly changing publishing landscape in a time of unprecedented challenge, but also opportunity. We also hope to support and foster a sense of literary community among all lovers of good writing.
Sulay Hernandez worked for several top publishers over two decades, including Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Kensington, and Other Press. She also worked for the Vigliano literary agency. In 2014, she established Unveiled Ink to work directly with writers, literary agents, and publishers. Projects include literary and genre fiction, narrative nonfiction, and books in translation. A recent project, Olympic champion Caster Semenya’s memoir, A Race to Be Myself, was critically acclaimed and a New York Times Editor’s Pick. Her latest project, actor Jaleel White’s memoir Growing Up Urkel, is forthcoming in November 2024. She was an adjunct professor at City College of New York and taught the Editorial Process course for their publishing certificate program.
Anne Horowitz got her start as an editor at Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. An independent editor since 2010, she works with publishers, literary agents, and authors, focusing on literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and the occasional science or history book. Since 2011, she has worked as a freelance editor with the literary agent Renée Zuckerbrot at Massie & McQuilkin Agency. She also mentors emerging writers at the Center for Fiction and other literary organizations. She has worked with Shani Mootoo, Chantal V. Johnson, Mark Moffett, Lee Gutkind, and Jillian Weise. Anne is also a copyeditor, whose clients include Knopf, Tin House, Spiegel & Grau, Creative Nonfiction, Grove/Atlantic, and Milkweed Editions.