Amy Grace Loyd is an editor, teacher, and author of the novels THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS (Picador), a BEA Buzz Book and Indie Next selection, and THE PAIN OF PLEASURE (Roundabout Press).

She began her career in publishing at independent book publisher W.W. Norton & Company and The New Yorker, in the magazine’s fiction and literary department. She was the associate editor on the New York Review Books Classics series and the fiction and literary editor at Playboy magazine and later at Esquire. She’s also worked in digital publishing, as an executive editor at e-singles publisher Byliner and currently as an acquiring editor and content creator for Scribd Originals, a publishing program featuring ambitious new work in a range of genres for the subscription e-reading and audio platform Scribd.

While at Playboy she had occasion to work on fiction and nonfiction features, including book-length work published in serialized form like Denis Johnson’s noir novel Nobody Move. She made it a priority to invite a range of women’s voices into that magazine’s iconic mix of high and low, acquiring and assigning work by Edwidge Danticat, Donna Tartt, Joyce Carol Oates, Laura Kipnis, Maile Meloy, and Margaret Atwood, with whom Loyd has had a career-long collaboration.

While at Byliner, Loyd commissioned a novel in serial form from Atwood, The Heart Goes Last, and edited it in installments and ultimately helped shape it as a standalone novel published by Atwood’s longtime publisher Random House. Loyd also commissioned a noir novella from Jonathan Ames (who wrote a column she edited for Playboy during her tenure there), which became You Were Never Really Here, later published by Vintage Books in an expanded form and adapted into a film starring Joaquin Phoenix.

Other writers she has collaborated with throughout her career and in her current her role at Scribd: John Freeman, Jess Walter, Ada Limón, Charles Yu, Lauren Groff, Richard Powers, Lidia Yuknavitch, Stephen Graham Jones, Kiese Laymon, Donna Freitas, Chuck Palahniuk, Will Blythe, Jacqueline Woodson, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem, Simon Winchester, Bill McKibben, Myriam Gurba, Lionel Shriver, Jennifer Haigh, Richard Ford, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, James Ellroy, Richard Russo, and Sherman Alexie, among others.

She is an adjunct professor at the Columbia MFA writing program where she teaches a class on revision and editing. She has been a MacDowell and Yaddo fellow and lives between New York and New Hampshire.

Loyd is available to lead workshops, interview authors, host events, and speak on a range of topics: editing, writing, and the publishing business, particularly during what’s been a time of great change for the industry.