Judy STernlight

Judy Sternlight was an editor at Random House, Ballantine, and Modern Library before founding Judy Sternlight Literary Services. Prior to her career in publishing, she performed and taught improvisational theater with Some Assembly Required in NYC. She has taught and mentored creative writers at the Center for Fiction and other NYC arts organizations, drawing on a blend of theatrical and literary techniques. She’s worked with many acclaimed authors including Elliot Ackerman, Marie-Helene Bertino, Rita Mae Brown, Mamta Chaudhry, Gwen Florio, Bret Anthony Johnston, Lisa Ko, Peter Matthiessen, Daniel Menaker, Melodie Winawer, and David Wroblewski. For more information: www.Judysternlightlit.com.

JANE ROSENMAN

Prior to becoming an independent editor, Jane Rosenman was an executive editor at Houghton Mifflin, Scribner, and St. Martin's Press. She was also editorial director at Washington Square Press. Jane has edited fiction writers such as Andrea Barrett, Elinor Lipman, Howard Norman, and Meg Wolitzer. In the memoir category, she has worked with Alice Sebold and with Mira Bartok. Jane now edits for publishers, agents, and individual writers. For more information, visit www.linkedin.com/in/janerosenman.

Sulay Hernandez

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 (www.unveiledink.com) to work directly with writers, literary agents, and publishers, conceptualizing and refining book proposals and ghostwriting for high-profile clients. Projects include literary and genre fiction, narrative nonfiction, and books in translation. Her most recent project, Olympic champion Caster Semenya’s memoir, A Race to Be Myself, was critically acclaimed and a New York Times Editor’s Pick.

PATRICIA MULCAHY

Patricia Mulcahy started an editorial consulting company (see www.brooklynbooks.com) to help authors of all backgrounds and interests do their best work. A former publisher, she began as a temp at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and left as editor in chief at Doubleday. Major authors included crime writers James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly. As a freelancer, she worked with musician and media mogul Quincy Jones; NBC’s Andrea Mitchell; PBS Masterpiece Theatre executive producer Rebecca Eaton; MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski; and Fred Rogers’s biographer Maxwell King. She has also worked with many emerging writers at the Center for Fiction. She is open to editing, collaborative writing, and “book doctoring” assignments of all kinds.

LESLIE WELLS

Leslie Wells spent two decades at Hyperion as an executive editor; prior to that, she was a senior editor at Pocket Books and E. P. Dutton. She is now an independent editor who works with publishers, literary agents, and individuals on both fiction and nonfiction. She has worked with such authors as Mitch Albom, Michael J. Fox, Candace Bushnell, Julie Andrews, and Liv Constantine, among many other memoirists and novelists. For more information and author testimonials, see www.lesliewellseditorial.com.

Anne Horowitz

Anne Horowitz began editing at Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press before going independent in 2010. She works as a freelance editor with the literary agent Renée Zuckerbrot at Massie & McQuilkin Agency and mentors emerging writers at the Center for Fiction and other literary organizations. She has edited for Creative Nonfiction, Book*Hug Press, First Second Books/Macmillan, Seal Press, and individual authors and literary agents. Anne is also a copyeditor, whose clients include Knopf, Tin House, Spiegel & Grau, and others. For more information, visit www.annehorowitz.com.