Alana Wilcox is the Editorial Director of Coach House Books, an independent publisher of literary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, where she has acquired and edited many books, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize winners Fifteen Dogs (André Alexis) and The Sleeping Car Porter (Suzette Mayr). She is the co-founder of the uTOpia series of anthologies about Toronto and the author of a long-out-of-print novel. She has served on the boards of the Literary Press Group, the Ontario Book Publishers Organization and currently the Association of Canadian Publishers. She was awarded the Janice Handford Award for her contribution to literary publishing in 2018.