With experience as an editorial director, managing editor, and developmental editor, I help bring diverse publishing projects to life—from anthologies and literary magazines to textbooks and guides. I specialize in guiding projects from concept to completion, combining my skills as a book project manager, producer, developmental editor, and contributing writer. I collaborate closely with design teams to ensure every project not only looks polished but also captures the heart and vision of the work.
SELECT BOOK PROJECTS
"AROUND THAT AGE, I LIKED TO PLAY WITH FIRE," 2015
Stories by Curie Metropolitan High School students BOOK PROJECT DIRECTOR & LEAD EDITOR: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN BOOK DESIGN: ALBAN FISCHER An 826CHI Publication |
"HANDS ON STANZAS," 2002-2007
Student Anthologies from Chicago Public Schools poetry residencies CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN A Poetry Center of Chicago Publication |
"LOVE RULES," 2015
Text and images from the Love Rules / Long Live the Girls writing project in Hawassa, Ethiopia BOOK PROJECT DIRECTOR & LEAD EDITOR: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN BOOK DESIGN: RACHEL MCINTIRE A Break Arts Publication |
"GIRL MANIFESTO," 2013
Text and images from the Girl Manifesto / Long Live the Girls writing project in Hawassa, Ethiopia BOOK PROJECT DIRECTOR & LEAD EDITOR: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN BOOK DESIGN: RACHEL MCINTIRE A Break Arts Publication |
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SWAHILI, INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, 2011
Revision of Swahili textbook for the Department of Swahili for Foreigners, State University of Zanzibar REVISION PROCESS DIRECTOR: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Swahili professors at the State University of Zanzibar A State University of Zanzibar Publication |
"NIDO IS NEST," 2010
Essays from social practice artists on the theme of "nests" and gestation in producing socially engaged art BOOK PROJECT DIRECTOR AND DESIGNER: RACHEL MCINTIRE CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN / A Break Arts Publication |
"AIMPRINT: NEW RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ARTS & LEARNING," 2008
AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning tells the story of Project AIM, the arts integration mentorship project of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago. This book offers an expansive model for art integration that places relationships—between people, processes, concepts, and curricula—at the center of effective teaching practice. AIMprint develops a theory of practice that incorporates both the varied and collective interests of teaching artists, teachers, principals, college faculty, program administrators, and public school students. The authors provide concrete examples of how to create a community of learners at every level of an arts partnership; access higher-order thinking strategies that link art and literacy learning; utilize engaging templates for the development of high-quality arts-integrated curriculum and instruction; and build reciprocal partnerships between colleges and universities and between teaching artists and public schools, in order to improve the quality and texture of education in the lives of school children.
CO-EDITOR / BOOK PROJECT MANAGER: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN
CO-EDITOR: CYNTHIA WEISS
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Amanda Lichtenstein, Cynthia Weiss, Joanne Vena, Jenn Morea, Avery R. Young, Cecil McDonald, Jr., Leah Mayers, among others in the AIM Teaching Artist Cadre and partnering school principals and teachers
A Columbia College Chicago Publication
AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning tells the story of Project AIM, the arts integration mentorship project of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago. This book offers an expansive model for art integration that places relationships—between people, processes, concepts, and curricula—at the center of effective teaching practice. AIMprint develops a theory of practice that incorporates both the varied and collective interests of teaching artists, teachers, principals, college faculty, program administrators, and public school students. The authors provide concrete examples of how to create a community of learners at every level of an arts partnership; access higher-order thinking strategies that link art and literacy learning; utilize engaging templates for the development of high-quality arts-integrated curriculum and instruction; and build reciprocal partnerships between colleges and universities and between teaching artists and public schools, in order to improve the quality and texture of education in the lives of school children.
CO-EDITOR / BOOK PROJECT MANAGER: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN
CO-EDITOR: CYNTHIA WEISS
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Amanda Lichtenstein, Cynthia Weiss, Joanne Vena, Jenn Morea, Avery R. Young, Cecil McDonald, Jr., Leah Mayers, among others in the AIM Teaching Artist Cadre and partnering school principals and teachers
A Columbia College Chicago Publication
BOOK REVIEWS
I occasionally write book reviews over at www.goodreads.com, mostly fiction, autobiographies and poetry.
I occasionally write book reviews over at www.goodreads.com, mostly fiction, autobiographies and poetry.