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

Requiem for Norma
(MobyLives publishing & lit blog 11/21/2012)
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.
The Seamy Underbelly of British Lexicography
(MobyLives publishing & lit blog 11/27/2012)
A news piece about the recent discovery that words had been secretly removed from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Fiction being scrapped from schools?
(MobyLives publishing & lit blog 12/4/2012)
Analysis of the impact of common core guidelines on literature teaching in American schools.
Operation Massacre
(BOMB Magazine 6/1/2013)
A review of Rodolfo Walsh's groundbreaking work of true crime, Operation Massacre.
The Desert vs Renewable Energy: A Shitstorm
(Someplace Magazine 4/20/2015)
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.
The Urge to Disappear: How a Poet Lost in the Desert Became a Little Part of Large Things
(Someplace Magazine 4/15/2015)
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.
How Minorities Conquered the Wild West
(Someplace Magazine 4/1/2015)
The little-known history of women and gay communities finding freedom in the Californian desert in the mid twentieth century.
More people than ever using New York’s public libraries
(MobyLives publishing & lit blog 1/9/2013)
Checking misconceptions about library usage, and celebrating libraries' importance to vulnerable communities.

Translation

A History of Money: A Novel
(Melville House 6/1/2015)
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.