Courses Taught:
Copyediting, Book Editing, Publishing
Biography:
Jessie Carver (she/her) is an editor and writer who received a master’s degree in writing (with a concentration in book publishing and editing) from Portland State University in 2011. She works as the managing editor of a language interpreting company and has edited many books and magazines over the past 10+ years, including Bitch magazine (2010–2019), What About the Rest of Your Life by Sung Yim (2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist), The End of My Career by Martha Grover (2016 Oregon Book Award finalist), and Life Begins at Incorporation by Pulitzer Prize finalist Matt Bors (2013). She co-authored the book Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution (which was adopted as Macmillan Publishers’ in-house sustainability guide), and her short stories and poems have appeared in places such as Hobart, Entropy, Barren, Watershed Review, and the anthology Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems. She lives in Portland, Oregon, but grew up on a farm in the borderlands of New Mexico. She has taught at PSU since 2017.
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