Elisa Wouk Almino is the editor in chief of Image, the magazine on L.A. style, fashion and art at the Los Angeles Times. She was formerly the deputy editor and has been with the paper since 2022. Prior to joining Image, Wouk Almino was a senior editor at Hyperallergic, where she launched and ran the art magazine’s L.A. bureau. She has previously edited and written for various publications including Words Without Borders, n+1, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Rizzoli, Guernica and the Nation. At one point, she gave gallery tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught art criticism and literary translation at UCLA Extension and Catapult.
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Looking for proof of life amid the candy-coated anti-depressants of suburbia.
Kate Briggs’ last book, ‘This Little Art,’ memorialized the art of translation. Her first novel, ‘The Long Form,’ is a paean to maternal and literary love.