¿ìɫֱ²¥ (PUP) is thrilled to ring in the new year with new editorial colleagues. Following PUP’s recently announced acquisition of Island Press – effective January 1, Island Press is an imprint of PUP – our team has grown to include editors Heather Boyer, Emily Turner, and Stacy Eisenstark.
Heather Boyer joins PUP as Publisher at the Island Press imprint, overseeing the acquisition of transportation and built environment titles aimed at reaching both professional and general readerships. Heather joined Island Press in1994 as an editorial assistant and later spent a year as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she studied urban planning and design with a focus on housing development. She is the coauthor, with Peter Newman and Timothy Beatley, of the Island Press book Resilient Cities: Overcoming Fossil Fuel Dependence.
Stacy Eisenstark joins PUP as a Senior Editor at the Island Press imprint, acquiring books on the built environment, aimed at reaching urban design professionals, policymakers, and advocates. She was previously the environmental studies editor at the University of California Press. Prior to that she was the natural science editor at Texas A&M University Press.
Emily Turner joins PUP as a Senior Editor at the Island Press imprint, acquiring health books, with a focus on publishing to raise public awareness of environmental health threats and the damage caused by extractive agriculture and food systems. ¿ìɫֱ²¥ she has acquired have been honored with the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Rachel Carson Book Award, among other accolades. Emily comes to PUP with two decades of experience with acquisitions and developmental editing. Before joining Island Press, she worked at New York University Press and Academy Chicago Publishers.
Together the acquisitions acumen of Heather, Stacy, and Emily will expand the frontiers of PUP’s publishing, while retaining the impactful and esteemed profile of Island Press’ list of books spanning the built and natural environment, conservation, food systems, health, and more.
Also joining PUP this month is Rachel Kindler, who will undertake the newly imagined role of Publishing Manager. Rachel comes to ¿ìɫֱ²¥ from the University of Notre Dame Press, where she served as Assistant and later Associate Editor, supporting the press Director and acquiring new books in American and Latin American history, as well as select regional titles. Prior to this, she was a Production Coordinator at Indiana University Press.
As we welcome Heather, Stacy, Emily, and Rachel to ¿ìɫֱ²¥, we look forward to the impact of these new collaborations for this year and many years ahead.