We started Galiot Press because we saw that publishing was full of problems—for writers and for readers hungry for something different.
We had one vital principle in our approach: not to simply replicate flawed practices that presses were already using. We looked outside publishing, to other industries, for innovations and systems to make book publishing—and book buying and reading—better. Better for the writer, the reader, and the environment.
We began work on our publishing idea in 2022. After numerous focus groups and conversations with experts in various fields, we launched Galiot Press in May 2024. We will publish our first collection of three books in Fall of 2025.
We chose the name Galiot with great care. A galiot is a kind of vessel that uses both sails and oars. It’s nimble, adaptable to changing conditions. It holds people together and takes them on a journey. And on top of that, the word galiot speaks to both Anjali’s French background and Henriette’s experience as a rower.
Traditional publishing is still full of problems, but Galiot Press is steering right around them.
Print on demand, not upfront print runs…
which means diminished shipping and warehousing
and lower financial risk, so we can take artistic risk
Sales beyond bookstores…
which means not giving up the standard 50% discount
and therefore paying higher royalties to our authors
Sales through partner venues…
which means meeting our readers where they are
which means on-the-spot access to print and digital
Creative events and extra content…
which means deeper reader engagement
So, come on board with us and explore the Galiot Way.
Attend one of our classes or workshops, and share the excitement of important stories.
Who We Are
We are Henriette Lazaridis and Anjali Mitter Duva. Together we have extensive experience as authors, editors, writing instructors, project managers, planners, and founders of literary and arts organizations and event series. We are multilingual and multi-disciplinary, and strongly believe in the richness of thought and experience that exists where cultures come together.
Henriette Lazaridis
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Henriette Lazaridis is the author of Last Days in Plaka (a Good Morning America Buzz Pick), Terra Nova (which the New York Times called “ingenious”), and The Clover House (a Boston Globe bestseller). A first-generation Greek/American, she earned degrees in English literature from Middlebury College, Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of Pennsylvania. Having taught English at Harvard, and at GrubStreet in Boston, she runs the Krouna Writing Workshop in northern Greece. Her essays and articles have been published in Elle, Forge, Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, New England Review, and elsewhere. An avid athlete, Henriette writes about athletic and creative challenges at The Entropy Hotel on Substack.
Anjali Mitter Duva
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Anjali Mitter Duva, half Indian and half American, was raised in France. She is the author of the historical novel Faint Promise of Rain which was shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and she has been a Finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. Anjali has been an instructor at Grub Street Writers and is a former fiction Co-Editor at Solstice Literary Magazine. She co-founded and runs the Arlington Author Salon, a quarterly literary series with a twist, and is also a co-founder and former executive director of Chhandika, a non-profit organization that teaches and presents India's classical storytelling kathak dance. She writes about the mixed experience and the richness to be found in the overlaps and in-betweens at Mixed Marginalia on Substack. Anjali was educated at Brown University and MIT.