Phillipa McGuinness has worked in book publishing for almost 25 years, first at Cambridge University Press and for the past decade at NewSouth Publishing, where she is executive publisher. A leading non-fiction publisher, she has published many prize-winning books of history, current affairs, biography and memoir. She conceived and commissioned the acclaimed 'city' series, which includes books by Delia Falconer, Sophie Cunningham, Matthew Condon and Kerryn Goldsworthy. She is the editor of Copyfight, published in 2015, for which she wrote a substantial introduction. She was the keynote speaker at the ANZCA conference in July 2016.She has appeared on panels, and as a chair, at writer's festivals (Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle), publishing seminars, and media and journalism conferences such as the Walkley Foundation's Storyology. She has talked about culture, copyright and cities on various ABC radio programs, including Geraldine Doogue's Saturday Extra, Books and Writing and Marc Fennell's Download This Show.She tweets at @pipmcg but gets more personal on Facebook.