about
Hi, I’m Daley
I am a writer, editor, and publicity and marketing professional with a decade of experience supporting independent literary art. I’ve worked in-house with nonprofit publishing leaders such as Milkweed Editions and Coffee House Press, boutique publicity agency Nectar Literary, and indie trailblazers Microcosm Publishing. I have collaborated on freelance and consulting projects with esteemed publishers like Haymarket Books and Arsenal Pulp Press, and I’ve supported artists and creative business owners at all stages of their practices.
Psychopomp Creative is where I pour my experience and lifelong DIY ethic into championing artists, helping them to polish and promote their unique projects. When we work together—whether you’re writing a blog or a book, whether we’re crafting copy or a publicity campaign—I offer you transparency, support, honesty, advocacy, and a point of view that encompasses each step of your work’s public life, from development to retail.
I lived and worked in Minnesota’s Twin Cities for most of my life, but my roots grow from my childhood in the Southwest. I am currently based in small-town southern New Mexico.
📸: Max Bray
manifesto
This period of systemic and artistic upheaval is preparing our collective creative soil for new growth. We don’t need to compromise ourselves to create and share artistic expression. If our institutions no longer can keep their promises or sustain our values, we have to do something else. We can be clever, uncompromising, direct, honest. Why not?
My “role” in this landscape has shifted many times. But whatever form it takes, my work is about real connection and community among people who love interesting, daring, fun, brilliant, unconventional, revelatory art and want to share it; and about supporting artists who draw that work from their relationship to a connective source of emotional, intellectual, political, and cosmic significance far beyond our little systems of being published, reviewed, or famous. The work is bigger than the structures we’ve devised to contain and profit from it.
Let your art be wild. Do what only you can do. Dream about the network of support and reciprocity you desire, even if you think it doesn’t exist. Let’s build it together.
