Adrienne Brodeur
With more than fifteen years of publishing experience, my passion has always been to discover new voices and cultivate talent. Currently, I am a Consulting Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where I acquire literary and commercial fiction and memoir. Before that, I founded the fiction magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story, with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and served as its editor in chief until 2002, during which time it won the prestigious National Magazine Award for Best Fiction. (It won again in 2012). I also founded and directed the annual Zoetrope Writers’ Workshop in Belize. Over the years, I have taught at many writers’ conferences, most recently Summer Words in Aspen, and have judged numerous fiction contests, including the National Book Award. I also regularly take on freelance editorial work.
In addition to being an editor, I am a writer. At present, I’m working on a memoir, an excerpt of which – “I Am My Own In-Law” – was published in the New York Times’ Modern Love column. My novel, Man Camp, published by Random House in 2005, was selected for Barnes & Nobel’s Discover Great New Writers program.
I have a B.A. from Columbia University, a M.G.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Radcliffe Publishing course. I split my time between New York City and Cape Cod, where I live with my husband and children.