Liz Gorinsky Email & Phone Number

New York, New York

New York, NY

• Tor is the largest specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy in the world, and has won the Locus Magazine poll for Best Science Fiction Publisher every year since 1988.
• Acquire and edit profitable and critically acclaimed science fiction and fantasy projects, including books by established authors (Catherynne Valente, Felix Gilman, Jeff VanderMeer, Ben Bova, Dave Duncan), career.
• Edit original projects in collaboration with the author, ranging from developmental and plot to line edits
• Manage publishing projects over the life cycle of book (usually 2-3 years)
• Present projects to other departments (sales copy and presentations, title information, editorial tapings) and the outside world (blurb campaigns, bookseller and reviewer letters, helping w/ publicity and marketing.
• Learn and use publishing technologies such as metadata and content management systems, digital asset management, data reporting outlets, and digital libraries

New York, NY

• Editorial Assistant, Assistant Editor, Associate Editor (6/03: Hired as Ed. Asst.
• 6/05: Promoted to Asst. Ed.
• 8/06: Promoted to Assoc. Ed.)
• Assisted influential SF editors Patrick Nielsen Hayden, James Frenkel, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Ellen Datlow, and Mary Kirchoff with author handling and administrative duties for 12-24 books per season.
• 2004: Began acquiring books and developing skills listed above as part of Editor position
• 11/07: Began supervising shared assistant

Learned and assisted with various duties related to trade book editing

New York, NY

• http://www.tor.com/ is a Macmillan digital initiative to create a community website for the SF community. Today it is one of the top two web communities for SF readers with appx. one million unique views per month.
• May 2010: Named co-fiction editor. Acquire and edit 4-5 short fiction pieces per year, as well as developing open submissions protocol and managing slush reading team. Stepped back from day-to-day running of site
• 6/08: Site launch. Over the next 2-3 years, helped guide the direction and design of the site. This included developing and running Tor.com’s first theme month (Steampunk Month, 10/09) by curating content and sourcing.
• 11/07: Recruited to work on the site. Initial responsibilities included acquisition of original short comics and conceptualization of branding, site design, and community features

New York, NY

Helped users with software and hardware in PC/Mac/UNIX environments

Learned and assisted with various duties related to comic book editing

Nyack, NY

Programmer / intern for a software startup. Web design; technical troubleshooting; system administration; and conceptualization, testing, and documentation of an artificial intelligence toolkit and a video game used to demonstrate the capabilities of the software

Ba, English, Computer Science, Psychology

Activities and Societies: CUSFS (Columbia University Science Fiction Society), The Fed, Urban New York, Orientation

Education record

Summer 2011: Attended Launchpad, a selective, fully funded “astronomy boot camp” for science fiction writers funded by the National.