An independent editorial studio
Regular Genius is the editorial studio of Mensah Demary an editor in literary publishing for nearly fifteen years, most recently editor-in-chief of Soft Skull Press, and co-writer, with Common, of the New York Times bestselling memoir Let Love Have the Last Word. Books he has edited have won the Carol Shields Prize and been named finalists for the PEN/Faulkner and shortlisted for the International Booker.
The studio works with authors, agents, and institutions on the kind of book that needs more than a copyedit: collaborative memoir with public figures, structural work on manuscripts already under contract, and nonfiction proposals headed to market.
An editorial philosophy
Adopting a softness to the work — a beginner's mind — Regular Genius approaches each author as a person first, and each book as something to refine and clarify according to its author's own voice and intention, rather than what the editor thinks is right.
