Your Business has been lucky to publish — and to keep publishing — a small, slowly growing list of writers. Most have been with us across more than one book. Almost all of them answer their own email.
Author of The Apartment at the Top of the Stairs (2026) and Borrowed Saints (2025). Worked as a line cook for nine years before her first book. Her stories appear in The New Yorker and Granta.
Essayist. Two-time Peabody finalist. Host of The Long Walk Home. Her essays have appeared in Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books.
Author of three story collections. Worked in a boatyard in Rockport for twelve years and still teaches one writing seminar a year out of the same building. Senior fiction editor at Your Business.
Essayist whose first collection appeared in 1981. Long out of print until our 2024 reissue brought her back into the conversation. Has written quietly for forty years out of an apartment in Morningside Heights.
Translator from the Greek. Former senior examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Host of Hard Currency. Translates only one play a year, very slowly, in the evenings.
Poet and production manager at Your Business. Two collections with us. Sets her own books in metal type at the Hudson shop and then complains about the kerning for a year afterward.
Novelist and short-story writer. Reader at Your Business; one of the people who reads our slush pile. Translates from the Portuguese and the Japanese. Lives one block from the press.
Story writer. Wrote and published quietly for two decades before our 2021 reissue of The Postman's Census brought him a wider readership. His new collection, Ten Lessons in Drowning, was a 2025 Story Prize finalist.
Poet. First collection (The Last Mineral, 2025) was a National Book Award finalist. Reader at the press. Argues nightly with whomever is sharing the office about whether the comma in the manuscript is necessary.
Novelist who came late to fiction after sixteen years as a city-hall reporter. Host of Crosstown Local. The Reading Room (2025), his first novel for Clary, was a 2025 Story Prize Spotlight title.
Your Business reads unsolicited fiction, essays, and translations year-round. We respond to every submission, usually within twelve to eighteen weeks, signed by the editor who read it. We do not require an agent.
If you'd like to submit, please first read at least two books on our list — your submission letter is unlikely to land if you haven't. Then send us your manuscript through the form on our submissions page.
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