Katharine Turok kturok@wildblue.net   (212) 501-7173 Specialties Literary and mainstream fiction and general nonfiction, including biography/memoir/letters, contemporary issues/politics, natural history, travel, psych-
ology, film and theater, the arts, poetry, reference, translations. Profile As a publishing executive and editor, Katharine Turok has acquired, edited, and published internationally acclaimed fiction and nonfiction for over twenty years. She has worked for Bloomsbury Publishing, Scribner, Dutton, Crown, Folger Shakespeare Library, and independent and university presses. Formerly associate publisher, executive editor, and managing editor at Holmes & Meier, she created an award-winning series of fiction in translation. She has been consultant and cultural editor for Encarta popular reference books,

copublished by St. Martin’s Press and Bloomsbury. Authors whose books she has worked on include Isaiah Berlin, John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Mike Royko, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, and Edmund White.

Among the services she offers to published and unpublished writers are proposal evaluation; manuscript analysis and review; developmental, substantive, and line editing; rewriting; ghostwriting; restructuring; cutting or condensing; assistance with querying and seeking literary agents; and advising on all aspects that make a book more publishable.

She teaches writing and literature at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and taught previously at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Born in New York City, she graduated from Wheaton College (Norton, Massachusetts) and did her graduate work at Rutgers and Princeton universities. She divides her time between Manhattan and the Blue Hill peninsula in Maine.