As an editor at
Kodansha Comics, I helped bring manga
(you know,
Japanese comics) to
the English-speaking world. I doubt there's another job in the world
where I'd get to think about anachronistic cusses, moiré issues in
screen-toned shading, and the exigencies of a multi-national approvals
process in the same day. From 2016-2019 I worked on wonderful books
with a great team and it was just the best. ☀️
From 2014-2016, my perversely impractical graduate degree in Japanese
Literature found application outside academia as an editor on the
Yen On light novel imprint. If I'd been told as a
grad student that this was a job a person could actually have, I would
have laughed. ☀️
I founded and edited
The Sockdolager, a quarterly zine of
genre fiction. From 2013 to 2017 I lost money and gained friends
in the process of publishing some very good short science fiction and
fantasy. 💖