Taking a manuscript and wrangling it into the shape of a book is wonderfully satisfying work. Some of the titles I’ve had the privilege of designing include:

Godine Titles:

The End of Respectability by Anthony Walton

Gardener at the End of the World by Margot Anne Kelley

The Presence of Absence by Simon Van Booy

Foodtopia by Margot Anne Kelley

We of Little Faith by Kate Cohen

Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

Reaching Inside by Andre Dubus III

Remainders of the Day by Shaun Bythell

The Isolation Artist by Bob Keyes

Late Wonders by Wesley McNair

Seeing Like An Artist by Lincoln Perry

Bone Rosary by Thomas Lynch

Ghost of the Hardy Boys by Leslie McFarlane

Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy

Life Sentences by Billy O’Callaghan

The Paperman by Billy O’Callaghan

Washed Ashore by Bill Eville

My Man in Antibes by Michael Mewshaw

Book Interiors

Black Sparrow Press Titles:

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
by Diane Wakoski

Collected Poems by Naomi Replansky

Please Wait by the Coatroom by John Yau

Heart First into This Ruin by Wanda Coleman

Wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman

Cuttings from the Tangle by Richard Buckner

Short Dog by Dan Fante

American Wake by Kerrin McCadden

Godine Nonpareil Series Titles:

Providence by Geoffrey Wolff

In the Merrimack Valley by Jane Brox

The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport

Better Than Sane by Allison Rose

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

Please Wait by the Coatroom by John Yau

Midnights by Alec Wilkinson

More to Say by Ann Beattie

On Becoming An American Writer by James Alan McPherson

Moonshine by Alec Wilksinson

Darkness by Bharati Mukherjee

Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood

Better Than Sane by Alison Rose

The Orchard by Adele Crockett Robertson