Ira Silverberg

Ira Silverberg is an editorial and strategic advisor to writers, artists, estates, and organizations working in literary, visual, and performing arts. Silverberg worked in Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts Innovation Management program, a comprehensive capacity development program, as well as the LitNYS program. He's been an advisor to organizations including Academy of American Poets, Art Papers, Barnett Newman Foundation, BOMB, City Lights, Committee on Poetry, Conjunctions, DAP, the Drift, Giorno Poetry Systems, Graywolf, LitQuake, National Book Foundation, Nightboat, Paris Review, Segue Foundation, and Ugly Duckling; and practitioners including Ishmael Beah, Dennis Cooper, Karen Finley, Nan Goldin, Adam Haslett, Nadia Owusu, Dread Scott, and David Wojnarowicz. He's been publisher of High Risk Books/Serpent's Tail, editor-in-chief of Grove Press, literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts, a literary/foreign rights agent, and founding literature curator of The Kitchen. An adjunct faculty member of Columbia University's MFA Writing Program, he's written for ArtForum, Document Journal, Frieze, New York, Paris Review, Rolling Stone, and Vulture. He lives in Bellport, NY and is at work on a memoir.