Team

Michael’s great goal in editorial collaboration is to make your ideas clearer, your characters rounder, your sentences crisper, your style more natural and alive.

The ideal editor stays true to three essential principles.
1. Do no harm: Preserve the genuine voice of the author.
2. Swear by Leo Tolstoy’s motto: “Clearness, simplicity, conciseness.”
3. Always allow the author to make the final decisions, large and small, about every aspect of her/his book.

Michael has written more than 20 books, some fiction, some poetry, some nonfiction. He has edited and copy edited novels, poetry, and nonfiction works in many themes: children, childhood, parenting; self-help and self-development; humanistic and positive psychology; life coaching; technology and how-to; eastern wisdom (literature, philosophies, and practices); biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. In addition, Michael is a master-rated chess player (and founder and President of the Ithaca Chess Club), and currently studying Artificial Intelligence, and he loves working with books/essays about chess and AI as well.
A voracious reader, his personal collection of the world’s best books contains more than 10,000 volumes. One Halloween evening, a young becostumed child stepped into Michael’s living room, then shouted perplexedly: “Mom, why are we trick-or-treating in the library!”
Michael writes: “I never miss a deadline, and always give the utmost care and personal attention to every project. I am proud of my harmonious rapport with each client: despite the rigorous work — of writing, rewriting, and rewriting more — we enjoy working together.”

Ann Warde is an independent scholar whose work centers on the arts and humanities and has also included substantial work in science. Ann’s recent publications include chapters about music, technology, and American philosophy in Women in Pragmatism: Past, Present, and Future; Sound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice; Experience Music Experiment: Pragmatism and Artistic Research; and Sound Art and Music: Philosophy, Composition, Performance. She has also published articles on contemporary composition by Indonesian composers (in Asian Music) and contemporary experimental music (Leonardo Music Journal).

Among her contributions to scientific publications are Recent occurrence of marine mammals and sea turtles off Angola and first report of right whales since whaling era, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (2023), and Seasonal acoustic occurrence of blue, fin, and North Atlantic right whales in the New York Bight, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (2018).

Ann is a specialist in attention to detail and in constructing clear, logical presentations of ideas, histories, and data. Her expertise in stylistic and grammatical editing stems from her own doctoral studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, which focused on practical, technical, and scientific study of computer music composition, as well as on ethnomusicological studies of Indian and Indonesian musics. She holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan in anthropology and music, and an M.A. from Wesleyan University in music composition with studies in South Indian and Indonesian musics. Her work has been recognized by a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellowship at Cornell University and a US-UK Fulbright Research Fellowship at the University of York (UK).

Fluent in the Chicago Manual of Style, Ann’s professional editing experience includes copy editing of a Cornell PhD dissertation on experimental film history for a native Italian speaker, and serving as a peer reviewer for articles published by the Orpheus Institute (Ghent, Belgium). She has also served as an application reviewer for US-UK Fulbright Fellowships and for New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship awards. Her skill in scientific writing is informed by her ten years as an analyst and team leader in bioacoustics at Cornell University.

For a more complete listing of her publications, please visit her website: zsonics.org

Eva Sofianou is an editor and avid book lover. Her main areas of expertise are Greek Philology, Linguistics, and the English Language.

Eva has many years of work experience in these areas: teaching foreign languages; proofreading, copyediting, content research, commentaries, artistic design/curation for publications; copywriting for books, brochures, catalogues, and websites; publishing/editing works in ancient or modern Greek, Latin, English and other European languages; translations and translation editing; secretarial administration; events of academic interest (e.g., conferences) and proceedings; and training university students who wish to work in publishing.

Since 2012 she has worked on various important projects for Zorba Press.

Fotini has studied Graphic and Digital Design and has been working as a graphic designer for the past 21 years. She has worked at a newspaper in pagination and for the last 19 years as a graphic designer on print-on-demand projects and designing almost anything that can be printed such as promotional posters, flyers, business cards, books, product packaging, product labels, invitations, catalogues, roll up banners, large format printings for music, cultural events, conventions and many more. Fotini has also worked as a member of creative teams in designing new shops and apartments for rent in various Greek islands, mainly in Skiathos and Sifnos islands.

For the last 7 years she has worked on logo design for companies, the food industry, car sales, tourism, sports, jewelry design, as well as promotional digital banners for social media use. She has worked on projects for cultural and art events organized by municipalities in Greece, mainly Central Greece and on promotional projects for art galleries such as art catalogue designing, promotional banners and posters and informative publications.

For the last three years she has been working with a web designer in web development and advertising, as a design consultant.

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Michael Turnbull lives in Berlin, Germany, and translates texts about art and related subject matter from German into English. His publications include

Wolf Jahn, Gilbert & George. The Meaning of the Earth, Hurtwood Press, 2023

• Zoran Terzić, Idiocracy. The Culture of the New Idiot, diaphanes, 2022
• Sandra Frimmel, Art Judgements. Art on trial in Russia after perestroika, Vernon Press, 2022
• Ute Holl, The Moses Complex. Freud, Schoenberg. Straub-Huillet, diaphanes, 2017 https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/the-moses-complex-3347
• Volker Pantenburg, Farocki/Godard. Film as Theory, Amsterdam University Press, 2015 https://library.oapen.org/viewer/web/viewer.html?file=/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/32375/611670.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
• Maria Zinfert, Krakauer Photographic Archive, diaphanes, 2014

Most writers in German these days are fluent readers of English, so Michael’s preferred approach to translation is one of close collaboration with his authors. He welcomes comments and discussion on his final drafts by phone or email. He is an adept researcher and a wizard in finding published English versions of quotes from German translations.
Michael has also translated short stories, two novels for teenage girls, and two rhyming picture books. He has subtitled films by leading German directors, among them Herrmann Zschoche, Karla (1965/1999), Volker Schlöndorff, The Legend of Rita (2000), Agela Schanalec, Afternoon (2007), Orly (2010), and works by Harun Farocki.