As Managing Editor, Katherine Kassouf Cummings works on the digital wing of Humans & Nature Press. Katherine is currently producing (with co-editor Anja Claus) Invitation to Listen: The Poetry of Plain, Air, a book by Robin Wall Kimmerer with music by Spektral Quartet and Tonia Ko. Since 2012, Katherine has led the Questions for a Resilient Future publication series, for which she developed the Editorial Fellows program. She received her BA in Anthropology from Emory University, and she holds a certificate from the University of Chicago’s program in editing.
Katherine believes that words shape worldviews. Her work as Managing Editor is guided by attention to the ethics of editing at every stage of the publication process. As part of the Center’s Editorial Fellows program, she has collaborated with Julian Brave Noisecat, Christine Luckasavitch, Manòn Voice, Kate Weiner, Kailea Loften, and Dr. Akilah Martin. Katherine co-edited the anthology What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Outside her work at the Center, Katherine’s collaborative work with artist Colleen Plumb was exhibited at Chicago’s Edelman Gallery and published in Orion Magazine. She currently serves on the residency board for the literary organization Write On, Door County. When not at her desk, Katherine shares her passion for movement as a Pilates instructor.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMANS & NATURE PRESS:
- Enter with Curiosity: Tending Connection through a Practice of Questions
- Ten Years of Questions: Reflections from the Co-founders of Questions for a Resilient Future
- When We Listen: A Conversation with Christine Luckasavitch and Alyssa Bardy
- Poems as Portals
- You Belong to the Land: A Conversation with Karen Washington and Leah Penniman
- Valuing Vulnerability: A Review of Phoenix Zones by Hope Ferdowsian
- Time to Love
- 6 a.m. on LaSalle Street
OTHER NOTEWORTHY LINKS:
- Invisible Visible
Read Katherine’s writing at Orion Magazine. - What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?
A book co-edited by John Hausdoerffer, Brooke Parry Hecht, Melissa K. Nelson, and Katherine Kassouf Cummings
