Ellie Robins

Brooklyn, NY USA
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Professional Experience

I write about travel, books and addiction recovery. I've been an editor at Time Out Buenos Aires, and I spent a decade working in-house as an editor at publishing houses in London and New York.

Expertise

Copywriter
5 Years
Editor
10 Years
Writer
5 Years

Specialty

Books & Literature
10 Years
Health
1 Year
Travel
5 Years

Industries


Magazine - Local/Regional magazines
1 Year
Book Publishing Consumer
10 Years
Online/new media
10 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

10 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Someplace Magazine (6-10), Penguin Random House Book Publishing (6-10), BOMB Magazine (6-10)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Google (10+), Recovery Brands (10+)

Other Work History

I've been an editor at Time Out Buenos Aires, Melville House Publishing and Hesperus Press. And I translate: Publishers Weekly recently called my translation of Argentine Alan Pauls's novel A History of Money a "stylistic tour de force."

Foreign Language Skills

I translate from Spanish to English. I also have good working French.

Computer Skills

Word, Excel, Wordpress, Squarespace, Google Analytics

Equipment

MacBook Pro w/ OS X; audio recorder.

Work Permits & Visas

British citizen with an American green card.

References

Available on request

Showcase

Editorial publications

An account of a major Latin American publishing news sensation, for English-language readers. An analysis of the likely impact of the discontinuation of publisher Norma's fiction and nonfiction imprints.
A news piece about the recent discovery that words had been secretly removed from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Analysis of the impact of common core guidelines on literature teaching in American schools.
A review of Rodolfo Walsh's groundbreaking work of true crime, Operation Massacre.
A detailed exploration of local objections to plans to build large-scale solar and wind farms in the Californian desert, including interviews with the foremost local policymakers.
An interview with Ed Rosenthal, who spent six and a half days missing in Joshua Tree National Park during a heatwave, and a consideration of the desert's draw on artists and writers.
The little-known history of women and gay communities finding freedom in the Californian desert in the mid twentieth century.
Checking misconceptions about library usage, and celebrating libraries' importance to vulnerable communities.

Translation

I translated this novel by the brilliant Argentine author Alan Pauls, which tells the story of Argentina's tragic seventies and eighties through the optic of one man's relationship with money.