Kathy Pories, Executive Editor

Kathy Pories joined Algonquin Books as an editorial intern while finishing her Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies and teaching undergraduate literature. She acquires a broad range of fiction, primarily literary and upmarket, and select nonfiction, with a specific interest in stories from diverse perspectives told in a singular way. She has been with Algonquin for over two decades, during which she acquired and edited Gabrielle Zevin’s New York Times bestselling The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Oscar Hokeah’s PEN/Hemingway winner Calling for a Blanket Dance, Lauren Grodstein’s Read with Jenna book club pick We Must Not Think of Ourselves, Thrity Umrigar’s Reese’s book club pick Honor, Gabriel Bump’s Ernest J. Gaines Award winner Everywhere You Don’t Belong, Lisa Ko’s National Book Award finalist The Leavers, and Whiting Award winner Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls. She has also worked with Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Robert Olmstead, Daniel Wallace, Ayesha Rascoe, Michael Parker, Rebecca Lee, Bill Roorbach, Silas House, Nayantara Roy; and many more; her authors’ books have been finalists or winners of numerous prizes including The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award, and the Thomas Wolfe Award. For seventeen years, she worked alongside Barbara Kingsolver as a judge for and editor of the winners of the PEN/Bellwether Prize. She designed and taught the pilot course on Publishing at UNC Chapel Hill.

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