Navah Wolfe

An Award-Winning Editor

‍Previously DAW Books, Saga Press, and Simon & Schuster

Before joining The Novelry, Navah Wolfe was an Executive Editor at DAW Books, home to authors such as Mercedes Lackey, Patrick Rothfuss, Nnedi Okorafor, Christopher Ruocchio, and many others, where she worked with writers including Tanya Huff, Jim C. Hines, Beth Revis, Deva Fagan, Gretchen McNeil, Tashan Mehta, Sophie Burnham, Grace Curtis, and many more.

Prior to her work at DAW, Navah worked at Saga Press, where she founded and built the imprint from the ground up. At Saga Press, Navah worked with authors such as Catherynne M. Valente, Theodora Goss, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, Alexandra Rowland, Matt Wallace, Mishell Baker, Elizabeth Bear, and T. Kingfisher.

Navah’s first job in publishing was as an editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she had a hand in working with authors including Neal Shusterman, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Jonathan Maberry, Tim Federle, Katherine Rundell, John Lithgow, Tony DiTerlizzi, Tiffany Trent, Kathleen Duey, Gary Paulsen, and Todd Strasser.

Navah is also a two-time Hugo Award-winning editor, and has been a finalist for the Locus Award for best editor. She is also the co-editor, along with Dominik Parisien, of three anthologies: The Mythic Dream, Robots vs Fairies, and The Starlit Wood, which won the Shirley Jackson Award, and were finalists for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Locus Awards.

The books Navah has edited have won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, BSFA, Aurora, and Ignyte Awards, and been finalists for the World Fantasy, Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, and Tiptree Awards, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Navah lives in Connecticut with her husband, four small and medium humans, and one cat, where she dabbles in tea, boxing, Eurovision, and dad jokes.

‘A brilliant, ground-breaking editor’

‘Navah is a brave and insightful editor who isn’t afraid to take risks. She will make sure your book and you are on point. One of my most successful books literally would not exist without her, and she will always be an asset to any work.’—Catherynne M. Valente, author of the Hugo Award finalist Space Opera

‘Working with Navah feels like work to the extent that dancing feels like exercise. She delivers keen editorial insights with warm enthusiasm, asks all the right questions, and frames her perspective in ways that make you fall more deeply in love with your own book as you develop it. I couldn’t make up a better editing partner in my dreams. The first short story of mine she worked on won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards, and was nominated for four other major awards; This Is How You Lose the Time War was optioned for TV before it was even published and is now in its third hardcover printing. Correlation isn’t causation, but friend, you want to correlate with this brilliant, ground-breaking editor. Navah Wolfe is passionate about good storytelling, and she’ll make your writing the best it can be.’—Amal El-Mohtar, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning author of This Is How You Lose the Time War‍

‘Navah is quite simply the best editor I’ve had the pleasure of working with in my 14 years as a professional author.’—Matt Wallace, Hugo Award-winning author of Savage Legion

‘During the editing process, Navah asked exactly the right questions to make Direct Descendant a better book, tightening where necessary and pin-pointing what needed expanding. She was fast, available for consultation, and a joy to work with. Harlan Ellison once said that an editor should be a sheet of glass over the writing, bringing it into focus but invisible to the reader. Navah was my sheet of glass, and I’d work with her again in a heartbeat.’—Tanya Huff, author of Direct Descendant

‘I’ve worked with Navah on short fiction and novel-length work. In each case, she provided thorough, thoughtful feedback that made the stories stronger and helped me continue to grow as a writer.’—Jim C. Hines, author of Slayers of Old

Navah’s Genres

• Science Fiction
• Fantasy
• Horror
• Speculative Fiction
• Young Adult
• Middle Grade