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| Pat Strachan | |
Pat Strachan, a founding editor of Catapult, is retiring in March. As v-p and executive editor at Catapult since it began in 2014, Strachan's writers have included Jane Alison, Michelle de Kretser, Danielle Dutton, James Kelman, Zachary Lazar, Simeon Marsalis, Peter Orner and Padgett Powell. She commented: "I will be forever grateful to our publisher, Andy Hunter, for asking me to help establish Catapult, which he has since developed into an award-winning publisher of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. I will dearly miss working with my colleagues and writers there."
Strachan began her career as an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1971, where she acquired and edited books by Lydia Davis, Ian Frazier, Jamaica Kincaid, Padgett Powell and Marilynne Robinson, and acquired Seamus Heaney's poetry for the list. She worked at FSG for 17 years and rose to v-p and associate publisher. She was also fiction editor at the New Yorker for four years, then was a senior editor at Little, Brown for 12 years.
Strachan is also winner the PEN/Roger Klein Award for Editing and Poets & Writers' Editor's Award.