
Olga Gardner Galvin grew up in Moscow (then USSR), in the 1960s and 1970s, the only child of a book editor and a graphic designer who, between the two of them, could conceptualize and produce any printed matter, from a book to a theater poster—and did it all the time, in a small apartment crammed with books. By the late 1970s, Olga developed a habit of openly reading forbidden literature on public transportation, which precipitated her parents’ decision to relocate to the USA, since they found her form of rebellion disturbingly dumb. Building on what she'd learned from her parents, Olga eventually made her freelancing way into American mainstream publishing, where her clients now include some of the biggest publishing houses in New York. She gained editorial experience working on books by such authors as Michael Marshall Smith, Steven Saylor, Matt Ruff, A.M. Homes, Lionel Shriver, Daniel Silva, Armistead Maupin, Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, Dennis Lehane, and Michael Crichton, to name just a few. ENC Press is a result of Olga’s finally finding herself in possession of all the skills necessary to produce and publish books she’d like to read that don’t make it to the big publishing houses’ rosters—because she still likes to make her own decisions about what to read.