Announcing the 2026 A Public Space Editorial Fellows

The 2026 A Public Space Editorial Fellows

Our gratitude to all the editorial fellowship applicants for their visionary ideas about the role of an editor. As part of their applications, all fellowship candidates are asked to write about an author whose work has been meaningful to them, and so we had the privilege of meeting them as readers too.

We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Editorial Fellows and to welcome them to A Public Space:

BERTA COLL BOSCH, SAM KARAGULIN

If writers provide a window to the world, editors are the ones who help them build these apertures in audacious places and through astonishing angles. The Editorial Fellowship at A Public Space aims to support aspiring editors in this work. We are delighted to announce Berta Coll Bosch and Sam Karagulin as the 2026 Editorial Fellows. This week, they joined A Public Space for a six-month fellowship, which includes mentorship in editing, hands-on experience, and the opportunity to develop a portfolio for the magazine.

Special thanks to Yasmin Bashir, a former editorial fellow, who helped to review editorial fellowship applications.

Berta Coll Bosch

In her application, Berta Coll Bosch discussed the author Elspeth Davie’s attention to strangeness, Philip Guston’s metaphysical writings on painting and drawing, and Bette Howland’s unsentimental yet perceptive writing style. While working at an independent press in Barcelona, Berta supported the Catalan translation of Howland’s W-3 (which was reissued by A Public Space Books in 2021). We are excited for her to bring her interests in intermediality, hybrid nonfiction, and the mechanics of independent publishing to the editorial fellowship at A Public Space.

Berta Coll Bosch is a journalist, editor, and critic. She is completing an MFA in nonfiction at Columbia University, fully funded by La Caixa Foundation. Before moving to New York, she lived in Barcelona, where she worked as a culture reporter for Ara and Núvol; and served as assistant editor at La Segona Perifèria. She is originally from La Cellera de Ter, a Catalan village not far from the Pyrenees.

Sam Karagulin

In his application, Sam Karagulin discussed the radical imagination of Emily Zhou’s story collection Girlfriends, translating queer Russophone poetry, and Liz Pelly's intervention into streaming culture. Sam also admires Zhou's trans-focused reading series in Queens and Calvin Gimpelevich's t4t reading series in Boston for their commitment to nurturing the reading public. We are delighted that he will bring curiosity about the art of pitching, an expansive knowledge of theory and literature, and dedication to overlooked and marginalized authors to the editorial fellowship at A Public Space.

Sam Karagulin is a writer, editor, and translator. He is a PhD candidate in Slavic languages and literature at Yale University. He translated Ekaterina Simonova's work for This Is Us Losing Count, part of the Calico series at Two Lines; and has also worked as a bookseller at Amherst Books. He lives in New York.

The Editorial Fellowship at A Public Space is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Our gratitude also to the individuals, organizations, and foundations who share our commitment to the mission of our fellowships and have provided crucial support, including the Hawthornden Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.