Susan Hill Newton has worked in all realms of book editing, serving both trade and academic publishers and nonprofits. Her breadth of experience ranges from acquisitions to book development, line editing to program direction, as well as the writing and editing of marketing collateral. She presently sits as the managing editor at University of Iowa Press, where she oversees the editorial program of roughly thirty books per year. Susan lived in Denver, Colorado, for more than twenty years before making the move to Iowa City with her husband and two daughters.