Lauren Christensen is an editor at the New York Times Book Review, where she covers literary fiction, memoir and other genres; and the author of “Firstborn.”

Aea Varfis-van Warmelo is a writer and editor living in London. She is the author of the poetry pamphlet Intellectual Property and the forthcoming Attention-Seeking Behaviour, a hybrid text on pathological lying and the technologies of lie-detection. She has been on the editorial team of Granta magazine since 2023.

Emily Everett is a writer and editor from western Massachusetts. Her debut novel All That Life Can Afford, inspired by her years tutoring for the wealthy elite in London, is forthcoming in spring 2025 from Putnam Books. Her short fiction appears in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House, and Mississippi Review. She is a […]

Hannah Beresford is a full-time freelance editor in all genres, and has served as a poetry editor for No Tokens since 2015. Originally of the Helderberg Escarpment of upstate New York, Hannah earned her MFA from New York University after spending four years on red dirt at Oklahoma State. She is the recipient of a […]

Thanks to an ongoing partnership, DISQUIET is pleased to be hosting an editor from Granta, one of the best-known and most-read literary magazines in the English-speaking world, in 2024. Stay tuned for more information to follow!

Francisco Vilhena is assistant editor at Granta. He writes short essays and translates from the Portuguese. His translations include works by Gonçalo M. Tavares, Paulo Scott and Ricardo Lísias and can be found in Modern Poetry in Translation, clinic, Wasafiri, Brooklyn Rail, Granta and elsewhere. He serves on the advisory board of the Poetry Translation […]

Emily Nemens joined The Paris Review as editor in 2018. Previously, she’d been coeditor of The Southern Review; stories published during her tenure were selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize anthology, Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the inaugural edition of PEN America Best Debut Fiction. Her debut novel, The […]

ELH is editor/publisher of St. Petersburg Review (since 2007) and Springhouse Journal (since 2014). Her book of poetry, Witchery, was published in 2016.

Jennifer Acker is founder and editor-in-chief of The Common. Her short stories, essays, translations and reviews are forthcoming from, or have been appeared in, Amazon Original Stories, The Washington Post, n+1, Harper’s and Ploughshares, among other places. She has an MFA in fiction and literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches literature and editing at Amherst. Her debut novel, The Limits of […]

Luke Neima is the online editor of Granta Magazine, the United Kingdom’s best-known quarterly journal of literature and long-form non-fiction, originally founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University. He is also the Deputy Editor of Review 31, an online review of the latest nonfiction, literary fiction and poetry. Before coming to Granta, he worked […]