Faculty:

Chris Jackson is Senior Editor at the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. He's worked with a number of best-selling and award-winning authors, including Edwidge Danticat, Victor Lavalle, and Aaron McGruder. Before coming to Crown, he worked at John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and Penguin. He teaches the Editorial Process course.

Lisa Healy is a senior production editor at Simon &Schuster, Inc. Previously she has held a variety of editorial positions at G. P. Putnam's Sons, Doubleday, Crown Publishers ,William Morrow, and most recently at HarperCollins. Healy is the author of My First Year of Book Publishing: Real-World Stories from America's Book Publishing Professionals (Walker & Company, 1994). She is an adjunct assistant professor of publishing at New York University's Center for Publishing, has lectured widely on the book publishing industry ,and teaches the Publishing Practicum course.

John Jusino works at HarperCollins Publishers as Copy Chief/Manager of Production Editorial and Managing Editor of Amistad. He joined the publishing industry in 1986, was previously the Managing Editor of Henry Holt and Company, and has also held various positions--on staff and freelance--in the managing editor's and copy departments of Newmarket Press, Viking, Crown, Grove, and Simon and Schuster. John teaches the Fundamentals of Copyediting and Proofreading course.

Tanya McKinnon has been a literary agent at Mary Evans Inc. for 7 years and has over 50 clients. Before becoming an agent, she was a foreign scout in New York and the youngest senior editor at South End Press in Boston. She holds an M.A. in cultural anthropology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School, a B.A. in English from Tufts University and has been profiled in The New York Times, The New York Observer, and Savoy Magazine. A lifelong fan of children's literature, Ms. McKinnon's list includes authors of picture books, middle-grade readers and young adult books.

Leslie Sharpe has worked as a senior editor at Seth Godin Productions, Smallwood & Stewart and The Philip Lief Group. Her Editing Fact and Fiction: A Concise Guide to Book Editing (Cambridge University Press, 1994) is considered an industry standard. Sharpe has been an assistant adjunct professor in the Columbia University's General Studies Writing Program since 1993. She teaches the Introduction to Publishing course.

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Staff:

David Unger has directed the Publishing Certificate Program since its inception and teaches Translation in CCNY’s Graduate Writing Program. Born in Guatemala, he is the author of the novel Life in the Damn Tropics (Syracuse University Press, 2002) and has translated 8 novels and poetry collections from the Spanish, one of which Silvia Molina’s The Love You Promised Me (Curbstone Press, 1999) was short-listed for the prestigious IMPAC Prize. He is presently at work on his second novel, In My Life, You Are Beautiful.

Catherine E. McKinley is the Associate Director of the Publishing Certificate Program and teaches graduate and undergraduate creative writing at City College. She is the author of The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts (Counterpoint/Basic Books, 2002), and co-editor of the anthology Afrekete (Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1995). A recent Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, McKinley has also received an Audre Lorde Estate Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction grant, and a MacDowell Colony for the Arts residency. She is currently writing a novel about the West African indigo trade and editing an epistolary history of African American Writing (1750-2000) for Crown Books.