Nancy E. Sherman

Nancy E. Sherman copyedits both ARTnews and Art in America. From early on, she worked with books and magazines, shelving and checking them out to patrons and updating card catalogues in her high school library, at the Graduate Research Library at UCLA, and the Cahuenga branch of the LA Public Library. With a degree in Japanese from UCLA, she worked for the Lt. Governor of California and the California Optometric Association, and ran the front desk of a general dental practice long-term. After moving to the East Coast, Nancy worked at CBS (a stint at 60 Minutes), at an architecture firm, and in the corporate offices of Vera Wang. Her editing career began with proofreading at ad agencies, then at Sterling Publishing, where she moved in mere months from proofreader to copy editor to developmental and project editor of nonfiction books. In that post, she led some two dozen titles from manuscript to bound pages before Barnes & Noble acquired the firm. She chose thereafter to work exclusively freelance, and, for ten years, had steady work at magazines including Discover, Fitness, Glamour, Interview, Vanity Fair, Real Simple, Field & Stream, Self, BioTechniques, NYU Physician, Psychology Today, Parade, Martha Stewart Whole Living, and Laptop. Among other such work was that for the Earth Institute and Teachers College at Columbia University, HarperCollins, Acanthus Press, the National Resources Defense Council, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Girl Scouts. Nancy worked at Art+Auction and Modern Painters before joining ARTnews and Art in America in 2016.