Louis Harnett O’Meara:
Selected editorial work


Assistant Editor for A Public Space; Assistant Editor for Staircase Books; Consulting Editor for Duck; editorial assistant to David Shields. Formerly editing for Monocle. Freelance copyeditor for NYRB Classics and others. 


For Duck: Consulting Editor for inaugral issue, featuring Jonathan Franzen, Andrea Cohen, Anne Waldman, Robert Glück, Ottessa Moshfegh, and many more. 
For NYRB Classics: Proofreading a reissued translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Danish writer Henrik Pontoppidan. 
For Staircase Books: Copyediting transcendental poet Anne Waldman’s poetry collection. 
For the A Public Space: Soliciting submissions, before selecting and then editing Matthew Keating’s story Education for the APS Editorial Fellowship. 
For NYRB Classics: Copyediting Margaret Jull Costa’s new translation of Spain’s 19th century great, Benito Pérez Galdós. 
For NYRB Classics: Proofreading a reissued translation of Honoré de Balzac’s Girl With the Golden Eyes. 
For NYRB Classics: Proofreading a reissued translation of a forgotten Argentinian classic. 
For Monocle: Editing a series of reports on newspapers in the world’s most remote regions. 
For Staircase Books: Copyediting a new poetry chapbook by Daniel Tobin. 
For David Shields (Vintage): Proofreading and fact checking Reality Hunger ahead of the next reissue. 
For David Shields (Autofocus): Proofreading and fact checking an autobiographical essay collection on documentary film. 
For NYRB Classics: Proofreading a collection of essays on writers and writing by Henry James. 
For Staircase Books: Copyediting Damion Searls’s translation of poems by Kurt Schwitters.