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Mensah Demary, new editor-in-chief of Soft Skull Press, has been editing books since 2016, rising to the role of executive editor at Catapult Books before being asked to lead the storied Soft Skull Press into its next chapter. So Im personally spending time with the backlist to help myself plan on how to do my own thing with Soft Skull, in my own way, to define what is a Soft Skull book or put my spin on the Soft Skull sensibility. Sarah Jean Grimm and Lena Moses-Schmitt, Assistant Directors of Publicity, Publishing Internship (two positions available). Readers can get inside the literature, and industry insiders can discover new talent.Bernardine Evaristo, on Twitter. Soft Skull Press NEW! 0000011767 00000 n
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