Brigid Hugh­es is the found­ing edi­tor of A Pub­lic Space. Pre­vi­ous­ly, she worked at the Paris Review with George Plimp­ton, suc­ceed­ing him as edi­tor in 2003. She teach­es at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, and at A Pub­lic Space has col­lab­o­rat­ed with such cul­tur­al orga­ni­za­tions as BAM, the Guggen­heim Muse­um, and PEN on lit­er­ary pro­gram­ming. A grad­u­ate of North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty, she lives in New York City.