annie hwang of folio literary management

Her writers have either won or been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times First Book Prize, the Whiting Writer’s Award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and they have received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Joining The Gernert Company in 2005, she now represents adult fiction writers (Sewanee’s Alice McDermott and Tony Earley among them) children’s fiction writers ( New York Times bestsellers Pseudonymous Bosch and Margaret Stohl) and journalists and critics ( The Ice At the End of the World’s Jon Gertner and Freeman's editor John Freeman). Sarah Burnes became a literary agent in 2001 after stints in the editorial departments of Houghton Mifflin, the Knopf group, and Little, Brown. She is the founder and president of, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the translation, publication, and promotion of international literature, earning a Distinguished Alumna Award from UNC-CH “for outstanding contributions to humanity in the field of world literature.” In 2014, she was awarded the first ever “Editorial Achievement Award” from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, “for broadening the world of American letters to include global and diasporic narratives.” She translated Elio Vittorini’s Conversations in Sicily (a New Directions Classic) and has published reviews and essays in Vanity Fair, The Boston Review, the New York Times, and the Daily News, and most recently, reminiscences of writers Randall Kenan and Brad Watson in Literary Hub. For over 30 years, she has acquired and edited both fiction and nonfiction, including bestsellers and prizewinners by Diana Abu-Jaber ( Fencing with the King), Diane Ackerman ( The Zookeepers Wife), Jessica Bruder ( Nomadland), Andre Dubus III ( House of Sand and Fog, Townie) Stephen Greenblatt ( The Swerve, Will in the World), David Guterson ( Snow Falling on Cedars) Dara Horn ( People Love Dead Jews, The World to Come), Pam Houston ( Deep Creek), Randall Kenan ( Black Folk Could Fly), Don Lee ( Yellow, The Collective), Maggie Nelson ( The Art of Cruelty), Janice Nimura ( Daughters of the Samurai, The Doctors Blackwell) and Brad Watson ( The Heaven of Mercury, Miss Jane). Norton & Company)Īlane Salierno Mason is an executive editor and vice president at the independent, employee-owned W.W. The recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in literature, Bell lives with her family near the Cape Fear River and calls ungendered Appalachian square dances in North Carolina and beyond.Īlane Salierno Mason (W.W. During her time as editor, work from Ecotone has been reprinted in anthologies including Best American Poetry, Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize anthology has received Best Original Fiction in the Stack Magazine Awards and has been a finalist for the ASME Award for Fiction and CLMP’s Firecracker Awards. Formerly senior editor at American Scientist, she teaches in the creative writing department at UNC Wilmington, where she is the editor of Ecotone, the literary magazine that seeks to reimagine place, and Lookout Books. Anna Lena Phillips Bell ( Ecotone and Lookout Books)Īnna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry Smaller Songs, a chapbook from St Brigid Press and A Pocket Book of Forms, a travel-sized poetry guide.

Annie hwang of folio literary management