Erika Stevens Joins Milkweed Editions as Senior Editor

Milkweed Editions is pleased to welcome Erika Stevens as Senior Editor

Erika Stevens has joined Milkweed Editions in the newly created role of Senior Editor. Stevens was previously literary agent with Salky Literary Management.

Daniel Slager, our Publisher and CEO said, “I have admired Erika Stevens for years, and I am thrilled to be adding her to our outstanding team. Erika’s keen sense of literary excellence and highly collaborative approach to developing manuscripts make her a particularly good fit here, and we all look forward to flourishing with her.”

Erika shared, “I’m thrilled to join the exceptional team at Milkweed Editions, a publisher with a remarkable tradition of championing bold, beautiful, and visionary literature. It will be exciting to build on that legacy by expanding Milkweed’s fiction list with ambitious, original voices and stories that challenge how we see and understand the world. I’m especially drawn to fiction that explores our changing relationship with the natural world, interrogates the space between myth and reality, and approaches language with the imagination, precision, and sensibility of a poet.”

Erika Stevens has over two decades of experience in publishing. Prior to her work as an agent she served as editorial director editorial director at Coffee House Press. Authors she has worked with have been awarded or named finalists for the National Book Award, the Hurston Wright Award, the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Award, the PEN/Osterweil Award, the Whiting Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Kate Tufts award, the NBCC Award, and others.