Mo Crist is an Editor at Bloomsbury.
They began their career at W. W. Norton where they acquired and edited a diverse list of titles with a focus on transgressive, intellectually curious, evocative writing. They have edited across genre and subject from literary fiction to deeply researched history and biography, cultural criticism, and food writing and have worked with authors such as Joseph Osmundson, Eliot Duncan, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Micah Fields, Katherine Packert Burke, Emily Mester, Muriel Leung, Randall Kenan, Vauhini Vara, Jeff Sharlet, and many others. Books they have worked on have been nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, Lambda Literary Awards, James Beard Awards, and the Dublin Literary Award.
Born and raised in Appalachia, Mo lives in Brooklyn, NY.