Kathy Pories
Kathy Pories, Executive Editor at Algonquin, has been with Algonquin for more than two decades. She has been lucky to work with a slew of writers, including Jill McCorkle, Thrity Umrigar, Lee Smith, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Lauren Grodstein, Jaquira Díaz, Robert Olmstead, Lisa Ko, Daniel Wallace, Gabriel Bump, Ayesha Rascoe, Michael Parker, Rebecca Lee, Bill Roorbach, Silas House, and Nayantara Roy. Her authors’ books have been finalists for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Carnegie Mellon Award the National Book Award, and winners of the Thomas Wolfe Award. For seventeen years, she worked alongside Barbara Kingsolver as a judge for and editor of the winners of the PEN/Bellwether Prize.
I have received an
E-mail from you to me vayu@vayunaidu.com regarding my publication of :
The Living Legend – Ramayana Tales from Far and Near (Ebury Press, Penguin India: 2025 )
As a human author I was touched by the interest indicated in an e-mail received with your name. You will appreciate how wary some of us writers are with AI induced letters and caution from Society of Authors.
If you are able, I’d appreciate communication by e-mail to speak or meet.
I have authored children’s books for Hatchette / about Ganesha and Myths and Legends of India. This is a human endeavour to ensure authentication- and do not have an Agent.