Ivan Lett is a New York-based marketing, publishing, and communications professional; poet; and freelance writer. Since 2007, he has worked in scholarly and commercial book publishing and university communications, advising fiction and nonfiction authors and researchers on strategies for print and digital publication.
He holds degrees in English and History from Yale and NYU, respectively, and his academic interests include: the intersection of identity, genetics, and equity in the 18th-21st centuries; Modernism and the development of subjectivity; and, the understanding of gender as power throughout human civilization. Areas of particular expertise include: imperial and 20th-century British history, the monarchies of Western Europe, African-American literature and history, gender in American comic book history, and narr
His poetic and creative writing focuses on contemporary re-imaginings and retellings of literary and historical periods, such as the Harlem Renaissance, The Odyssey , the lives of medieval royalty, and the irresistibly narcissistic forms of the roman à clef and the bildungsroman . Current projects include: Haarlem Reborn: a novel in verses ; Inert Gas, Atomic Soul: love poems; and a memoir about skin color.