As an editor at
Kodansha Comics, I help 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, moirΓ© issues in screen-toned shading, and the exigencies of a multi-national approvals process in the same day. I work on wonderful books with a great team and it's just the best. βοΈ
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. βοΈ
I founded and edited (and later, co-edited)
The Sockdolager, a quarterly zine of genre fiction. Since 2013 I've been losing money and gaining friends in the process of publishing some very good short science fiction and fantasy. π