A Conversation with Yuka Igarashi: 9/16 @ 10AM-12PM PT / 12PM-2PM ET

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What does it mean to work as an editor today? Join Kaya Press and Yuka Igarashi, executive editor at Graywolf Press, for a conversation on the political and aesthetic roles of an editor and a close look at the editorial process behind one of Graywolf’s forthcoming titles.

Yuka Igarashi is an executive editor at Graywolf Press, where she acquires fiction and nonfiction titles, in English and in translation. Before joining Graywolf in 2021, she was editor-in-chief of Soft Skull Press, founder and editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine, founding editor of the Best Debut Short Stories anthology series, and the managing editor of Granta magazine.  The writers whose books she has published include Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy Ives, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lynne Tillman, Dorthe Nors, James Hannaham, Yukiko Motoya, Aoko Matsuda, and Chloe Caldwell.

Austin Nguyen is an Associate Editor at Kaya Press. His criticism and interviews have been featured in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and Ploughshares, among others. They are currently based in Los Angeles.