Editor Biography - Lissette Sosa Paz
Name: Lissette Sosa Paz
Undergraduate:
BA, Comparative Literature
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Graduate:
MFA, Creative Writing (In Progress)
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Teaching and Editing Experience: 9 Years
Lissette grew up and attended college in New Jersey. She worked as a linguistic services provider for an urban public school district after graduation, facilitating written and verbal communication between students, families, and district staff. It was in this position that Lissette picked up her first editing credits assisting the editor of a local educational newspaper with proofreading and production duties. After moving to Alaska, Lissette joined a writers' group and published her first creative piece--a commentary essay for an Alaska-based NPR affiliate. The piece was recorded and broadcast just days before she left Alaska to move back to the East Coast. In 2005, she was hired as an editor of books for children at a publishing house in New York City. During the next several years, she published a number of nonfiction books for children and young adults. In 2007, Lissette began graduate studies in creative writing, specializing in creative nonfiction. While in graduate school, she taught English composition and rhetoric for two years. Since 2009, Lissette has worked as a freelance editor and writer.
Favorite Books:
- The Big Nowhere, by James Ellroy
- Coming into the Country, by John McPhee
- Of Grammatology, by Jacques Derrida
- Finn Family Moomintroll, by Tove Jansson
- The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
- Mules and Men, by Zora Neale Hurston
- Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
- Would You Please Be Quiet, Please?, by Raymond Carver
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