Amy Goldmacher ’96

There are plenty of book workshops out there for writers. But Amy Goldmacher recently held a “book work-ship.”

A book coach, writer, and anthropologist, Goldmacher organized a Craft and Publishing Voyage aboard the Queen Mary 2 this spring while it crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

Goldmacher’s interest in literature dates to her days as a Grinnell student, and her passion for the written word has never waned. She’s discovered unique ways to scratch that itch throughout her career.

After college, Goldmacher’s first job was with an academic publishing company. “I loved being engaged with books and wanted to become an editor working with authors and shepherding books to publication,” she says. She started as an editorial assistant and moved into marketing and then sales.

In 2013, Goldmacher started her own consulting business as a workplace anthropologist, doing qualitative and ethnographic research interviewing and observing individuals and groups and then discovering actionable patterns in the resulting data.

Goldmacher’s experiences writing and publishing a memoir, co-writing and publishing an anthropology textbook, and working in the publishing industry provide the backdrop for her current work as a nonfiction book and proposal coach, assisting others in learning the ins and outs of getting their works written and published.