Alexa Selph is BPR’s consultant for substantive editing, general copyediting, and indexing. She qualifies and supervises those who work at home to provide editing, copyediting, proofreading, and indexing. In addition to her supervisory role, she also accepts each year several manuscripts for editing and indexing.
Alexa Selph
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Alexa Selph holds an M.A. in English. Her recent clients include the Yale University Press, the Johns Hopkins University Press, the University of Tennessee Press, and John Wiley & Sons, among others. In her 25-year career, she has addressed a wide variety of subjects including biography/memoir, business, local histories, political science, social science, and cookbooks. Her poems have been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies. She also teaches evening classes at Emory University. An abbreviated list of titles she has edited may be viewed here.
An abbreviated list of titles she has edited may be viewed here.
Benhart, John, Jr. Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865–1900. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007.
Brennan, Michael G., Noel J. Kinnamon, and Margaret P. Hannay. The Letters (1595–1608) of Rowland Whyte. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2013.
Bricker, Harvey M., and Victoria R. Bricker. Astronomy in the Maya Codices. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.
Eliot, Marc. Paul Simon: A Life. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Fogelson, Robert M. Working-Class Utopias: A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022.
Gordis, Daniel. Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Lang, Harry G. Fighting in the Shadows: The Untold Story of Deaf People in the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2017.
McDonald, Donna. The Art of Being Deaf: A Memoir. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2013.
Neu, Charles E. The Wilson Circle: President Woodrow Wilson and His Advisers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Pizzarelli, John, and Joseph Cosgriff. The World on a String: A Musical Memoir. Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
Pruchno, Rachel A., PhD. Beyond Madness: The Pain and Possibilities of Serious Mental Illness. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Rowland, Laura Joh. The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë, a Novel. New York: Overlook Press, 2007.
Savage, Barbara D. Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2023.