I am the executive director of Electric Literature, a nonprofit digital publisher with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. We are committed to publishing work that is intelligent and unpretentious, elevating new voices, and examining how literature and storytelling can help illuminate social justice issues and current events. We are particularly interested in writing that operates at the intersection of different cultures, genres, and media.

Electric Literature began as a quarterly journal in 2009. I joined in 2010 as a volunteer, and became an assistant and then managing editor. In 2012, when EL’s founders decided to retire the quarterly journal to focus on other projects, I stepped in to reimagine Electric Literature online non-profit. At that time I co-founded Recommended Reading , EL’s weekly fiction magazine, with Benjamin Samuel. Recommended Reading publishes absorbing short stories and novel excerpts every Wednesday, each with an original introduction by a top writer or editor. Recommended Reading published its 500th issue in December 2021. Over the course of those issues I have edited stories by such writers as A.M. Homes, Helen DeWitt, James Hannaham, Laura Van Berg, Jim Shepard, Dina Nayeri, Steven Millhauser, Eduardo Halfon, Helen Phillips, Lynn Coady, Rebecca Schiff, Morgan Parker, and J. Robert Lennon.

Electric Lit’s daily site, electricliterature.com, edited by Denne Michele Norris, has become one of the most respected literary sites publishing today with over 5 million visitors in 2021. In 2018, Electric Literature lunched The Commuter, edited by Kelly Luce, our home for flash fiction, poetry, and graphic narrative. Work published by Electric Literature and our literary magazines has been recognized by Best American Short Stories, Essays, and Comics, the Pushcart Prize, Best Australian Essays, Best Canadian Short Stories, and The Best of the Small Presses.

Everything published by Electric Literature is available to readers for free, and as a non-profit, we rely on contributions from those readers to survive. To support our work and our mission, please consider becoming a member or making a one-time contribution. All gifts are tax-deductible.