Major staff changes are happening this month at Shelf Awareness.
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| Jenny Brown | |
Jennifer M. Brown has decided to retire as senior editor, effective January 31, to relax, travel, and devote more time to her singing. (If you've never heard her sing, do!) Happily for us, she will continue to contribute reviews and interviews to Shelf Awareness. She says she could never truly leave the team. Otherwise, we would miss her very much for so many reasons, which include, besides her excellent work, her enthusiasm and unfailing cheerfulness.
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| Dave Wheeler | |
As a result, in a well-deserved promotion, associate editor Dave Wheeler will be succeeding Jenny as senior editor. Dave joined Shelf Awareness 10 years ago from Elliott Bay Book Company, where Seattleites may have heard him interview authors such as André Aciman, Bill Hayes, and Hanya Yanagihara. He's also published several short stories. He has been editing and writing reviews for Shelf Awareness for years, and is unusually qualified to take on this new role.
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| Elaine Cho | |
And in another well-deserved promotion, Elaine Cho, who joined Shelf Awareness as publishing assistant in early 2022, is succeeding Dave as associate editor. She was formerly a bookseller at Elliott Bay Book Company and has worked at ArtsWest and Seattle Music Partners, plays and teaches the flute, and is a film critic for Mediaversity. She will be attending Winter Institute next month as an ABA Indies Introduce author for her sci-fi novel, Ocean's Godori, which will be published in April by Hillman Grad, a Zando Books imprint.
We have begun a search to fill the position of publishing assistant. If anyone is interested in applying, please watch our job board for the listing to come soon.