Alane Salierno Mason

Alane is an executive editor and vice president at the independent, employee-owned W.W. Norton & Company, where she has worked for 30 years. In She has acquired and edited acclaimed and bestselling fiction and nonfiction including books by celebrated Mississippi writer Brad Watson, Randall Kenan, Diane Ackerman, Andre Dubus III, Stephen Greenblatt, Paul Harding, Dara Horn, Jeff Sharlet, and Vauhini Vara. She has published reviews and essays in Vanity Fair, The Boston Review, the New York Times, the Daily News, and other publications, and translated Elio Vittorini's Conversations in Sicily (a New Directions Classic).

She is the founder and president of WordsWithoutBorders.org, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the translation, publication, and promotion of international literature, which led to her being named a Distinguished Alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "for outstanding contributions to humanity in the field of world literature." In 2014, she was awarded the first ever "Editorial Achievement Award" from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, "for broadening the world of American letters to include global and diasporic narratives."