{"id":495,"name":"Letta Page","url":"http:\/\/www.pagesmithing.com","description":"I am a disarmingly earnest editor, translator of academia, nonfiction revisionary, and domesticated roustabout.\r\n\r\nMore professionally, I might say: I am the senior managing editor of Contexts, founding associate editor and producer of The Society Pages, and a sociology editor, jargon-slayer, and \u201cbook doula\u201d for hire. My specialty is in helping authors identify and hone their arguments in ways their target audiences can both understand and use. In this way, I\u2019m a translator, consultant, writing coach, and editor all in one. The senior managing editor of Contexts magazine (the public outreach journal of the American Sociological Association), I have more than two decades\u2019 experience in academic editing across a range of disciplines. I\u2019ve edited and written copy for publications from Oxford University Press, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, W.W. Norton, the University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Stanford University Press, and many others, including dozens of journals. Today, I specialize in sociology and, as a sort of fun \u201cpalate cleanser\u201d (trust me, when you\u2019re editing books on neoliberalism and genocide, it\u2019s always good to have a fallback), I write copy for organizations like Stand Up! Records. I also have a background in the visual arts and was a founder of First Amendment Arts (now Co-Exhibitions) in Minneapolis, MN. I hold degrees in history and classical studies from Boston University and an art degree from the University of Minnesota, and I enjoy most of the things you can imagine Rose from The Golden Girls counts among her hobbies. I received the University of Minnesota\u2019s Public Sociology Award, for outstanding contributions to the discipline and public conversation, in 2019.\r\n\r\nMy truly lovely husband, Josh Page, is a professor of sociology and law at the University of Minnesota, as well as a food writer and founder of Meal magazine. He\u2019s a great writer, and I\u2019m so happy to work alongside him in print and in life.","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/author\/letta\/","slug":"letta","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94eb46a0664baf2a698bc49b3b9547cc12305ea90ec0c7eee07e48a8e47ac034?s=24&d=identicon&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94eb46a0664baf2a698bc49b3b9547cc12305ea90ec0c7eee07e48a8e47ac034?s=48&d=identicon&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94eb46a0664baf2a698bc49b3b9547cc12305ea90ec0c7eee07e48a8e47ac034?s=96&d=identicon&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}