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Today, we’re talking to authors Anjali Mitter Duva and Henriette Lazaridis about a new publishing house they’re launching, Galiot Press, why they’re doing it, and how they hope to serve authors by changing the industry from the ground up.
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Anjali Mitter Duva is an Indian American writer, editor, and publisher raised in France. She is the author of the bestselling historical novel FAINT PROMISE OF RAIN which was shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is a co-founder and publisher of Galiot Press, a new independent publisher ushering in a sea change for the written word. She is an instructor at Grub Street Writers and a former Fiction Co-Editor at Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices. She was a Finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. Anjali co-founded and runs the Arlington Author Salon, a quarterly literary series with a twist; ran a ten-year book club for teens; and was a co-founder and executive director of Chhandika, a non-profit organization that teaches and presents India's classical storytelling kathak dance. Educated at Brown University and MIT, she lives in the Boston area.
Henriette Lazaridis' novel TERRA NOVA was published by Pegasus Books in December, 2022 and was called "ingenious" and "provocative" by the New York Times. She is the author of the best-selling novel THE CLOVER HOUSE. Her short work has appeared in publications including Elle, Forge, Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, New England Review, The Millions, and has earned her a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant. Henriette grew up in the Boston area as the only child of Greek expats, speaking Greek as her first language. Devoted to storytelling since her childhood bedtime stories from the Odyssey, Henriette earned degrees in English literature from Middlebury College, Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of Pennsylvania. Having taught English at Harvard, she now runs the Krouna Writing Workshop in northern Greece. She writes the Substack newsletter The Entropy Hotel, about athletic and creative challenges at henriettelazaridis.substack.com. Her newest novel LAST DAYS IN PLAKA, was released in April and was a Good Morning America Buzz Pick.
BONUS: Anjali Mitter Duva and Henriette Lazaridis on Changing the Publishing Industry with Galiot Press