Washington Square Review

After four years in Japan, I reluctantly returned to the US for grad school at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House in Greenwich Village. This is where I wet my feet (and whetted my appetite) as an editor, working my way from assistant web editor to editor in chief of Washington Square Review. The job was unpaid and my office was a windowless room in the basement, but I got to work with a brilliant team of colleagues and publish some of the best writers in the world. And it was a window into the world of copy: emails, editor’s notes, ads, grants, web copy, delicately written apologies to famous writers—you name it, I wrote and/or edited it in those first couple years.