Ruby Haack

About Ruby Haack

In May of 2024 I graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in postcolonial literature and nonfiction writing, and with a special focus in food studies and Spanish. I am now working as an editor and organizer, pursuing a career in bookmaking and development.Throughout my time at Sarah Lawrence, I served as an Editor-in-Chief for Love and Squalor, a Sarah Lawrence-based literary magazine; a reader for Variant Literature; an editorial intern for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW); a Centenary intern at PEN America\'s Prison and Justice Writing program (PJW); and an editorial intern for BOMB Magazine. For MPWW, I served as the assistant editor for American Precariat: A Parable of Exclusions, that was published with Coffee House Press on November 15th, 2023. With PEN PJW, I served as the editor of Thank the Bloom: 2023 Prison Writing Awards, an annual anthology that publishes non-fiction, poetry, fiction, and drama written by writers who are incarcerated.Relevant undergraduate research projects include-\"Thrown into the Sea Like Rejected Bananas\": Magical Realism as History in One Hundred Years of Solitude- Agroecology and the Repeasantization of Global and Local Food Systems - Education within Urban Agriculture: Creating Spaces for Black Liberation -\"The Masterpiece of a Maggot\": Gender, Class, and the \'Metabolic Rift\' in Josephine Johnsons’s Now in November-\"Who’s We?\": Collectivization and Citizenship in The Grapes of Wrath and Whose Names are Unknown.

Experience

1. Participant - Simon and Schuster Publishing Prologue

   Simon & Schuster

   Jun 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Attended lectures organized by publishing professionals in various departmentsLearned about editorial process, production cycles, creative and collaborative relationships, and the daily operations of various publishing departments

Education

• Universidad de la Habana (University of Havana)

  Bachelor's degree, Art History

• University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication

  Bachelor's degree, Journalism

• Sarah Lawrence College

  Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, American History, Creative Nonfiction Writing, and Spanish