Join us for a panel discussion about the publishing industry with Latinx editors Nadxieli Nieto, Daniel Vazquez, and Elizabeth Méndez Berry; moderated by the managing editor of Intervenxions, Néstor David Pastor.
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Participants
Nadxieli Nieto is an editor of literary and upmarket fiction, nonfiction, and art books, including NYT bestseller LA Weather; Shirley Jackson Award finalists Tiny Nightmares and Tiny Crimes; award-winning Carteles Contra Una Guerra; and others. She is executive editor at Flatiron Books and on the board of Latinx in Publishing. Her current authors include María Amparo Escandón, Monica Brashears, Jean Grae, Jessica Hoppe, Wendy Chin-Tanner, and John Manuel Arias. She has published work by writers such as Carmen Maria Machado, Yuri Herrera, Charles Yu, and Lilliam Rivera, and is the former director of PEN America's Literary Awards. Her collaborative artist books may be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. You can find her online at @nadxinieto.
Daniel Vazquez is from Queens, NY. He is a Senior Editor at Astra House, an imprint of Astra Publishing House. Previously, he worked in editorial at MCD, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Harper and Harper Perennial; and in publicity and marketing at The New Press. He is a graduate of the Publishing Certificate Program at City College.
Elizabeth Méndez Berry is Vice President and Executive Editor of One World, where she works with authors like Jason Hernandez, Adam Serwer, Eve Ewing, Guadalupe Rosales and Rashad Robinson. Before joining One World, she invested in the arts, journalism and freedom of speech in roles at the Ford Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. She co-founded several philanthropic initiatives, including Critical Minded, which supports cultural critics of color. A critic and journalist, she started her career as an editor at Vibe Magazine; in his book Decoded, Jay-Z cited one of her essays as an inspiration for his song “Public Service Announcement.” And her Spanish-language oped on street harassment helped spark the country’s first ever city council hearing on street harassment. She is on the boards of A Long Walk Home, Seen Journal of Visual Culture and Critical Minded.
Néstor David Pastor is a writer, translator, and editor from Queens, NY. His past experience includes Radio Ambulante, the North American Congress on Latin America, and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, in addition to community-based work with the Afro-Latino Festival of NYC, Newtown Literary, and the Loisaida Festival. He is also the founding editor of Huellas, a bilingual magazine of crónicas narrativas.