Editor Mike Levine will join us on Zoom to field questions and talk about how we, as writers, can learn to think like our readers when we approach editing.

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Mike Levine offers dev elopmental, substantive, and line editing for book manuscripts, essays, short stories, and book proposals. Before becoming an independent editor, he was an acquisitions editor at Northwestern University Press, overseeing a wide range of books, including fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, and scholarly titles. Among his authors were MacArthur Fellows, Guggenheim Fellows, Pulitzer Prize winners, and Tony Award winners, as well as novelist Jen Beagin and playwright Clare Barron, both winners of a 2017 Whiting Award. He has participated in editors’ panels at the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, AWP, and other conferences. Since 2000, he has taught literature and film seminars and led reading groups for several continuing education programs, most recently at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn. He also reads scripts for Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He has a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in English from Rice University.