The Paris Review
Olivia Kan-Sperling is an accomplished editorial professional with experience spanning various prominent organizations. Currently serving as an Assistant Editor at The Paris Review since September 2021, Olivia previously worked as an Editorial Assistant at Farrar, Straus and Giroux from August 2020 to September 2021. Additionally, Olivia held the position of Undergraduate Research Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and has extensive editorial experience at The College Hill Independent, where roles included Senior Editor, Managing Editor, and Tech Editor. Earlier in their career, Olivia gained editorial experience as an Editorial Assistant at Cabinet Magazine and interned with Tactical Technology Collective. Olivia also worked as a Teaching Assistant at Brown University and completed an Editorial Internship at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Olivia's educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Modern Culture and Media & Computer Science from Brown University, completed in 2020.
The Paris Review
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Founded in Paris by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton in 1953, The Paris Review began with a simple editorial mission: “Dear reader,” William Styron wrote in a letter in the inaugural issue, “The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind ofmerely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e., somewhere near the back of the book. I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good.”