Nadine Davidoff has worked as a Senior Editor at Random House Australia and as a Commissioning Editor at Black Inc. She was also fiction editor for The Monthly magazine before starting her own freelance editing business in 2006. Her areas of interest include literary and popular fiction, narrative non-fiction and biography/memoir.
Nadine is an honorary fellow at the Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers at Melbourne University’s School of Graduate Research, a member of the NSW Writers’ Centre, the Victorian Writers’ Centre, and a member of Editors Victoria. She lives in Melbourne.
Black Inc is an independent publisher with a varied list that includes politics, current affairs, memoir, poetry and short fiction. The company publishes Quarterly Essay and The Monthly. In 2005/06 Nadine commissioned books across a range of genres, working closely with Black Inc’s existing stable of authors as well as actively sourcing new talent. In 2005, she commissioned the English translation of Simon Leys’ award-winning The Wreck of the Batavia and New Under the Sun: Jewish Australians on Politics, Culture and Religion.
As a senior editor at Random House from 2001 until 2005, Nadine produced books of the highest editorial standard, to deadline and to budget, working closely with authors, agents, designers and publishers. She managed all stages of the editorial and production process from manuscript submission through to publication on a range of titles, including Michelle Grattan’s bestselling Back on the Wooltrack, Cassandra Austin’s debut fiction Seeing George and Tim Clissold’s Mr China. She project-managed and edited Don Watson’s Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, Sarah Macdonald’s Holy Cow and Janine Burke’s The Heart Garden, amongst many others.
