I am a fifteen-year veteran of academic and trade non-fiction publishing. Over the years, I have acquired, edited, and published many different types of books and journals, including research monographs, textbooks, reference books, and trade books in
political science, Asian studies, business and economics, and others. My titles include General Tony Zinni’s The Battle for Peace, the first New York Times bestseller for Palgrave Macmillan, Susan Napier’s Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle, the definitive book in the field, and William Tsutsui’s Godzilla on My Mind, which won the 2005 William Rockhill Nelson Award for non-fiction. I have worked with academic authors of all types, professional writers, and policy makers on agented and unagented projects.

I have an undergraduate degree in public affairs from Princeton University and a masters degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University. After determining the life of an academic was not for me, I started my publishing career at Taylor & Francis, working on journals, reference books, and psychotherapy titles. From there I moved to Palgrave Macmillan (which was still known as St. Martin’s Press, Scholarly and Reference when I started) and worked on both scholarly and trade books in international relations, area studies, and business. Most recently, I acquired and edited textbooks and readers in political science and international relations for Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group.

I am an avid fiction reader. Though I find it difficult to say who my favorite author is, Haruki Murakami, Tom Robbins, and Joseph Conrad would certainly be in the running.

I live in the Washington, D.C. metro area with my wife and two sons.