Carey C. Newman has spent three decades in academic publishing, most notably as director of Baylor University Press for seventeen years, where he built a modest operation into one of the most respected religion publishers in the country. He has also served as an editor at Westminster John Knox, Brill, and Fortress Press.
Across that career he has shepherded more than 800 books from idea to reader and taught countless authors the craft of storytelling — a craft he distilled in his own book, Mango Tree: The Artistry and Alchemy of Writing (Friendship Press,2023). He holds a Ph.D. from Baylor and has lectured on writing and publishing from Oxford to Beijing, from Havana to Vancouver. At The Carrier Pigeon Post he brings the full discipline of publishing—acquisition, editing, design,production, and distribution — to a single purpose: putting story into the hands of incarcerated readers every month, work he has also framed, in his own scholarship, as a public theology.
