Ines Vasquez-Holt
Managing Editor — Long-form Journalism & Books
Profile
Managing editor with 12 years shaping long-form journalism and books. Cut average time-to-publish 30% while lifting reader completion on features to 68%.
Experience
Managing Editor2021—Present
Prairie & Field Quarterly
- Oversee a 6-writer, 3-editor newsroom producing 44 features per year.
- Rebuilt the edit-to-print workflow; time-to-publish fell from 21 to 15 days.
- Introduced a style guide and fact-check checklist; correction rate fell from 1.8% to 0.4%.
EXPERIENCE, CONT'D
Senior Editor2016—2021
Harrow House Publishing · New York, NY
- Line-edited 34 nonfiction titles; 6 hit regional bestseller lists.
- Managed a freelance copyeditor pool of 12, standardizing turnaround to 5 business days.
Copyeditor2013—2016
Union Press · New York, NY
- Copyedited 400+ articles per year across print and digital; pre-press catch rate 99.6%.
Skills
Editorial
Developmental editing, copyediting, fact-checking
Style
Chicago Manual of Style, AP Style
Tools
Google Docs, InCopy, Trello
Education
B.A. English Literature
2009—2013
Northwestern University