Parallax Press is a nonprofit publisher cofounded by Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh and Arnold Kotler. Parallax Press was established in 1986 with the publication of Thích Nhất Hạnh’s book Being Peace in sunny Berkeley, California, and we were based in the San Francisco Bay Area until 2025. Our fully remote staff now work from home all over the United States and we plan to move our office in 2026 to Deer Park Monastery, a mindfulness practice center in the Plum Village tradition in Southern California. Our journal of mindful living, The Mindfulness Bell, is published twice a year. We are a part of the thriving Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism.
As mindfulness practitioners who are engaged in the daily work of bringing treasured wisdom to publication, we offer a work environment that is participatory, flexible, energizing, and creative. Our books are distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services and available wherever books are sold. We have more than 175 books in print, publish 15 new titles per year, and are continually engaged in growing as publishing professionals and as people.
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Production Editing Contractor
Parallax Press seeks a detail-oriented freelance Production Editor with experience in print and digital publishing. This is a 15-hour-per-week, non-exempt, contract position that manages the editorial and production workflow for assigned titles, ensuring that manuscripts move smoothly through copyediting, design, proofreading, and final delivery.
Responsibilities include setting and maintaining schedules; supervising the work of freelance editors, copyeditors, and proofreaders; overseeing the printing process, including all stages of page proofs and digital proofs; inspecting jacket and cover proof at various stages, and close collaboration with acquisitions, design, and marketing teams.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer
Parallax Press is committed to diversity in its publishing program and in fostering an equitable, inclusive work culture and environment. Parallax encourages and actively recruits applicants representing dimensions of difference that include—but are not limited to—age, national origin, race, ethnicity, religious and spiritual tradition, ability, sexual orientation, and gender.