Deepa

DEEPA

Deepa has been working in publishing since high school. She accepted an editorship at John Wiley & Sons in New York and grew to love the rapid pace and charismatic authors that define college publishing. Upon leaving New York, she worked at Houghton Mifflin and Pearson Publishing in Boston, further sharpening her editorial and project management skills. After ten years in educational publishing, Deepa dipped a toe into the trade market, managing a local press and handling everything from acquisitions, production, and editing to marketing and book deliveries. She has been freelance writing and editing throughout her career, a perk not many industries can offer.

Deepa lives just outside Boston with her husband, two energetic sons, and an expanding cookbook collection. She is always on the hunt for the perfect short story, loves binge-watching old Will & Grace episodes, and will talk your ear off about politics if you let her. (She wouldn’t advise it.)

​If I weren’t a writer/editor I would be: a party planner.

My morning routine is: snooze for at least thirty minutes, frantically check the Washington Post to make sure nothing crazy happened overnight, and then coffee, coffee, coffee.

I most admire: my mom. She was the only woman in her entire graduate school in India, came to the United States in an arranged marriage, and then proceeded to kick butt and take names for the next four decades. (She has summited the tallest mountain on four continents, manages three book clubs, and took this photo.)

My superpower is: ​knowing where every stuffed animal in our house is at any given moment.