Jonathan Galassi

Jonathan Galassi (born 1949 ) has served as the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is currently its chairman and executive editor.

Early life Galassi was born in Seattle (where his father worked as an attorney for the Justice Department) in 1949 but grew up in Plympton, Massachusetts. He moved to Random House in New York, and then in 1986 to Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG), after being fired from Random House. He was succeeded as publisher by Mitzi Angel in 2018, and Angel was named president in 2021. Galassi is currently the chairman and executive editor.

Galassi is also a translator of poetry and a poet himself. He has translated and published the poetic works of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi and Eugenio Montale. and his activities include having been poetry editor for The Paris Review for ten years, and being an honorary chairman of the Academy of American Poets. He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, The Nation and the Poetry Foundation website.

He is also a trustee at his alma mater Exeter. His brother is Peter Galassi. School Days: a Novel (New York: Other Press, 2022)