After completing the Columbia Publishing Course, Caroline Fairey is an editorial assistant at W. W. Norton working on composition & literature titles. She first started reading for Adroit in 2016, and became a Prose Editor in 2021. She previously read fiction submissions for Ploughshares, and has screened manuscripts for Dzanc Books, Lanternfish Press, Hub City Press, and Ayesha Pande Literary. Her work has been published in storySouth, Garnet & Black Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Noble Gas Qrtly, and elsewhere. She was a 2016 YoungArts Finalist and a three-time Scholastic Medalist. Originally from Estill, South Carolina, she graduated from the University of South Carolina Honors College in 2020 and currently lives in Brooklyn.