Carolyn Kuebler

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT CAROLYN KUEBLER

Carolyn Kuebler is an editor, writer, and publisher with 20+ years of experience. Her novel, Liquid, Fragile, Perishable will be published by Melville House in May 2024. Her essays have appeared in the Massachusetts Review (where she won the 2022 John Burroughs Award for Nature Essay), Colorado Review, the Common‘s “Dispatches” series, and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press). Her fiction has been published in the Common, Copper Nickel, Sleepingfish, and the Literary Review, and she has published dozens of book reviews, as well as small-press profiles and author interviews, in publications such as Publishers Weekly, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi, and City Pages.She has been editor of New England Review since 2014, and was previously managing editor at NER, an associate editor at Library Journal, and founding editor of Rain Taxi Review of Books. She began her work in publishing as an intern at Milkweed Editions in Minneapolis, served briefly as marketing director at Dalkey Archive Press, then worked as a bookseller and events publicist at the Hungry Mind in St. Paul.At NER she has worked with hundreds of writers both emerging and established to usher their new work into print. Many debut and emerging writers published in NER have gone on to win Best American, Pushcart, O. Henry, and PEN/Dau awards for their NER publications, including Michael X. Wang, Celeste Mohammed, Meron Hadero, May-lee Chai, Alyssa Pelish, Emma Duffy-Comparone, and Valerie Hegarty. During her time at NER, Carolyn established an internship program with Middlebury College students, initiated a reading series and podcast, and has regularly secured funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.She has an MFA from Bard College and a BA from Middlebury College.