Arely Guzmán hosted our Instagram, on April 16, for our weekly #SalaSundays series. Below are a few questions that we asked Arely.
Latinx In Publishing (LxP): What do you do?
Arely Guzmán (AG): I am an assistant editor at Levine Querido.
LxP: How did you get started?
AG: After sending over forty internship applications all around New York, Steven Malk, at Writers House, took a chance on me. I interned at Writers House for close to three years after that.
LxP: What do you wish you knew before getting into the industry?
AG: I wish I'd known how advocating for diverse authors is an uphill battle. Sometimes you get lucky and find people who will support you, but it's not a given in the industry.
LxP: What book are you currently working on or reading?
AG: My favorite book I'm working on is a graphic novel biography of Tsai Kun-Lin, a book publisher and victim of the White Terror era in Taiwan.
Arely Guzmán is an Assistant Editor at Levine Querido. Previously, they were an editorial assistant at Knopf Books for Young Readers, and an editorial intern at Bloomsbury, Writers House, and Kweli Journal. They’re looking for middle grade and young adult books that will reverberate with the in-between communities, and fantastic stories for children who never saw themselves as protagonists. In their spare time, Arely can be found watching little gay cartoons, writing overly-convoluted essays, and being an ever-present guest at their best friend's house.
