Matt Henderson Ellis: shirt still untucked after all these years.
I received a degree in English Literature from Bennington College, after which I interned with a Broadway-based script agent and worked at The Hollywood Reporter, the film industry’s primary trade paper. Later, in book publishing, I worked in the editorial department of Doubleday and Company then, after that, at several prestigious literary agencies in an editorial capacity. I co-founded and edit a literary review that is distributed internationally, and I have been editing books on public policy for the Soros Foundation, one of the world’s largest and most influential nongovernmental organizations. An invitee to the Vienna Literary festival and the GODOT Literary Festival, I also work as a teacher of creative writing. My journalism has been widely published on the web.
A Small Sample Of Books On Which I Have Editorial Credit:
Pink, Academy Award winner Gus Van Sant – paperback editor
The Meaning of Star Trek, Thomas Richards – paperback editor
Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls, Veronica Vera – paperback editor
A Small Sample of Books I Assisted On (in the office of Executive Editor Betsy Lerner):
Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Reflections and Notes for the Future – National Book Award winner Patti Smith
A Crack Up at the Race Riots – Harmony Korine
Bitch – Elizabeth Wurtzel
Breakup – Catherine Texier
Just Visiting This Planet - Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most recent freelance project on which I served as an author coach was Shadows of Vesuvius by Robert Colton. You can read about what that involved in Adventures of an Author Coach 2.
My projects and some of the people I currently work with:
Pilvax Magazine: A literary review out of Central Europe that I founded with Aaron Hunter. I am currently Editor-in-Chief and have edited and published writing and translations by many classic contemporary luminaries of the area. Pilvax has a strong interest in transgressive, minority, literary fiction and non-fiction. Pilvax is distributed in independent bookstores across Europe and America, and is permanently archived in the Nobel Library in Sweden, due to a short piece we translated by Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész. For more information, see the Pilvax web-site here.
I review restaurants and serve as the Budget Budapest Editor over at Chew, a popular Central European blog that has received over two-million page views.
I am paid blogger and write the newsletter at PPM, a boutique film-production company in Budapest. I write mostly about film, locations, and culture in Hungary. Check out the blog here.
I am an editorial consultant at New Europe Books, an imprint that champions new and classic fiction and non-fiction by Hungarian authors who have yet to receive the attention of an English-speaking audience. I will also be blogging for their site in the near future.
We Rule the School is the working title for a film treatment I am shopping around with writer/director Peter Strickland. See Peter’s blog here.
The Expat Lab is a company started by a friend and I to create and market niche content on-line. Our first e-book will be out this winter (2012).
For more information check out wordpillediting.com
And if you like the profile photo of me, it is all down to Peter Pawinski at Pawinski Photography.
