About
Stacy is the founder and editor at large of Tu Books, the imprint of Lee & Low Books that publishes diverse middle grade and young adult novels and graphic novels. She is also the owner of The Curious Cat Bookshop in Winsted, CT, including the Curious Cat Bookshop Podcast. She holds a master’s degree in children’s literature from Simmons University. In 2013, Stacy founded the New Visions Award, which honors a new unpublished writer of color. Books she has edited include the acclaimed Summer of the Mariposas by Pura Belpré Award-winning author Guadalupe García McCall, Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina and illustrated by Stacey Robinson and John Jennings, and the American Indian Youth Literature Award-winning novel Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis with Traci Sorell.
Prior to launching Tu Books, she was an editor for Mirrorstone, the children’s and young adult fantasy/SF imprint of Wizards of the Coast. She has edited elementary school textbooks at Houghton Mifflin, interned at the Horn Book Magazine and Guide, and was a children’s bookseller at Barnes & Noble (not to mention editing phone books and transcribing overland trails journals in college, typesetting college textbooks and the publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in LaTeX at various points in time, freelance editing and copyediting, and writing, editing, and photography for Electrical Apparatus, the trade magazine for the industrial electrical motors aftermarket—as well as a small local paper in Stark County, Illinois). In her eclectic career, she has worked with a wide variety of writers, artists, and publishing professionals who taught her the gamut of the publishing industry, and she applies that every day no matter what part of the book industry she’s focusing on that day.
Stacy also works on a limited basis with authors independently outside of her work at Lee & Low. (This website is a work in progress, and will be updated with specifics.) A note on ethics: If you want to work with Stacy on an independent basis, you may not submit to her at Tu Books for at least 2 years after finishing your work together.