Jessie Kindig

Jessie Kindig is a senior editor at Yale University Press and an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. As an editor at Yale, Jessie acquires books for wide audiences across a wide range of humanities fields and oversees the Black Lives Series, the Yale Series of Younger Poets, and the Yale Drama Series. At Yale, she has recently acquired books from Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Harmony Holiday, Yvonne Rainer, George Scialabba, Lola Lafon, Rachel Shteir, Adina Hoffman, Paul Virilio, Salamishah Tillet, and Emily Bernard. In her previous position as editor at Verso Books, Jessie has worked with authors such as Vivian Gornick, Hazel Carby, Andrea Long Chu, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Katherine Angel, Andreas Malm, and Annie-B Parson.

Jessie writes widely on culture, feminism, politics, history, and the more-than-human world, and she is the editor of The Verso Book of Feminism (Verso, 2020). Her criticism and essays have appeared in the New York Review of Books, n+1, Orion, The Baffler, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on two book-length projects: Late Summer, a work of creative nonfiction that explores why to write, how to live, and what holds our common world together; and Ghostkeepers, a reckoning with the ghosts of America’s wars in East Asia, drawing from over ten years of research on the Korean War and a 2020–2021 Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea.

Previously, Jessie was a contributing editor at Lux magazine, an editor at Verso Books, a visiting assistant professor of history at Indiana University, an assistant editor at the Journal of American History, an associate editor of the Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects housed at the University of Washington, and worked for over a decade with Voices of a People’s History extending Howard Zinn’s historical vision. Jessie has held visiting scholar positions at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and New York University’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington.