Alice Day has been an editor since 1988. After earning a graduate degree in creative writing at Brown University, she has worked at the book publishers Henry Holt and Company and Carroll & Graf Publishers. Writer Don Smith, whose awards include 19 regional Emmys, said of Alice Day, "She's the kind of editor every writer should be so lucky to have." Alice Day is an award-winning poet with four collections of poetry that have been published by nationally-recognized publishing houses. Kathleen Wakefield, whose novella won the 2008 Cleveland State University novella contest, said "that [Alice] has been an editor at a major New York publishing house gives her insight into that complicated world; that she is a poet, I believe, gives her the sensitivity to find the beauty of a writer's individual work." Alice Day has the skill and experience to focus on a writer's vision and help the writer realize it. She's a hands-on editor who's not afraid to cut words and offer insights. And she has a poet's sensitivity to language.
Alice Day's specialty is fiction editing. She has worked with numerous award-winning authors (authors who have won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as first-time novelists) She does detailed manuscript evaluations, as well as developmental/substantive editing. She is also a skilled copy editor.
Specialties
Her fiction specialties include short stories, novellas, literary fiction, historical fiction, commercial fiction, women's fiction, chick lit, thrillers, mysteries, and detective/crime novels.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
May
2001-present
Freelance Manuscript
Editor and Writer:
Responsibilities
include editing full-length manuscripts for authors and/or their agents,
and/or publishing houses. Both fiction and nonfiction.
1988-present
Faculty: The Milton
Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Rutgers University, The Writer's Voice,
Hunter College, New York University, Hofstra University, Brown University:
Teach courses such as
poetry and fiction workshops, American literature, expository writing.
October 2000-April
2001
Managing Editor
and Writer, Cambridge Technology Partners, UX
Design:
Edited and wrote
online text for a variety of sites including GMAC real estate and Fleet
Capital Leasing. Managed content developers.Responsible for maintaining
editorial standards, including proofreading and copyediting.
August
2000-Sept.
Content Developer,
Angryman.com:
Developed content for
Internet entertainment and polling site.Developed, researched, and wrote
essays and opinion polls for the following categories: the arts, politics,
current events, jobs and money, spirituality, education, health, and
lifestyle. Proofed and copyedited all text.
April
2000-July
Editor,
Umagic.com:
Nutrition and diet
artificial intelligence (AI) self-help Internet site. Directed and managed
house writers. Developed and edited site content. Proofed and copyedited
all text.
Responsibilities
include scheduling, budgeting, and managing the production of books;
hiring and managing editorial freelancers and jacket designers; acquiring
and editing books.Edited
books in a variety of categories including fiction, film history, and
lifestyle.
1988-2003
Senior Editor, CONJUNCTIONS(literary
journal):
Responsibilities
include project development, acquisitions, editing, copyediting and
proofreading. Contributing writers include Russell Banks, Paul West,
William Gass, Juan Goytisolo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rick Moody, and Valerie
Martin. Proofed all text.
1997
Editor, CONJUNCTIONS "Tributes":
An anthology of
essays celebrating literary predecessors.Responsibilities include project
development, acquisitions, editing, copyediting and proofreading.
Contributors include John Sayles, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Ana
Castillo, Sven Birkerts, and Maureen
Howard.
1996-1998
Assistant Editor,
Henry Holt and Company:
Responsibilities
include overseeing all aspects of editing through manuscript transmission,
writing flap and catalog copy, and liaison to production, design,
marketing, and sales.
EDUCATION
Summer
1997
Manuscript
editingNew York University
1986-1988
MA, Creative
WritingBrown University
1984-1986
BA, English/Art HistoryHunter College
Summa Cum Laude
BOOKS PUBLISHED
2006
Further Adventure
of the Monkey God. Brooklyn: Spuyten Duyvil,
New York
Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1991.
American
Academy of Poets Award,
1988.
Feedback
I want to thank you very much for the terrific job you did editing my book!! I accepted the majority of your changes. And many of those that I didn't prompted me to realize how unclear I'd been. The consequence was a change in the text that made it much more vivid and understandable. The quality of your work was excellent!! I realized from your first communication that you were the editor I wanted to work with me. There was a quality and balance to the way you handled each step that told me you were the right person, that I could rely upon you.... For the amount and quality of work you did the fee was very reasonable. Once more I want to thank you for your excellent work! And for being the kind of person you are. --Don Fenn
As a novice, writing my first novel, I was amazed by Alice's ability to visualize my entire novel and make succinct comments that were specific to a particular sentence while referring to the structure and narrative of the entire work.
--Erik R. Brown, first-time novelist
Alice Day is a clever, intelligent, thoughtful, and thorough editor. She is nurturing yet highly professional, with keen eyes and ears. She hones in on the heart and matter and delivers the goods &a goldmine for any writer.
--Taylor Barton, author of Hotheaded Saints and lyricist
Alice Day is a joy to work with and someone I recommend most highly to other writers. She is a skillful, sensitive editor with excellent judgment and tremendous respect for an author's voice. Whether she's commenting on the overall arc of a story or zeroing in on a specific phrase or line of dialogue, her comments are always insightful and instructive.
--Amanda Filipacchi, author of Nude Men and Vapor
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Alice Day has been an editor since 1988. After earning a graduate degree in creative writing at Brown University, she has worked at the book publishers Henry Holt and Company and Carroll & Graf Publishers. Writer Don Smith, whose awards include 19 regional Emmys, said of Alice Day, "She's the kind of editor every writer should be so lucky to have." Alice Day is an award-winning poet with four collections of poetry that have been published by nationally-recognized publishing houses. Kathleen Wakefield, whose novella won the 2008 Cleveland State University novella contest, said "that [Alice] has been an editor at a major New York publishing house gives her insight into that complicated world; that she is a poet, I believe, gives her the sensitivity to find the beauty of a writer's individual work." Alice Day has the skill and experience to focus on a writer's vision and help the writer realize it. She's a hands-on editor who's not afraid to cut words and offer insights. And she has a poet's sensitivity to language.
