Mike Levine, an uber experienced editor, will be on Zoom to field questions and talk about how we, as writers, can learn to think like our readers when we approach editing.

Mike Levine has worked with MacArthur Fellows, Guggenheim Fellows, Pulitzer Prize winners, and Tony Award winners. He published work by novelist Jen Beagin and playwright Clare Barron, both winners of a 2017 Whiting Award. He is an independent editor offering developmental, 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.

In 2015, Mike was named to New City’s Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago. He has participated in editors’ panels at the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, AWP, and other conferences. He has also worked as a senior editor at the Great Books Foundation in Chicago. 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.