John Knight is an independent editor who works with publishers, agents, and authors across the country. He was an acquiring editor for Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and has worked for New Directions, McSweeney’s, and n+1. He was a founder of the long-form journalism magazine Once, and has worked on bestselling and award-winning novels, essay collections, biographies, memoirs, translations, and nonfiction. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, and his own writing has appeared in The New York Times, Paris Review Daily, New York Magazine, Nautilus, Music + Literature, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.