07/09/2023
Meet Eleanor Svaton, the mind behind the Desk.
Originally from Holyoke, Massachusetts, this lover of humanity, life, and literature has been a Honolulu resident for the past 20 years, working in the food & beverage industry at places like Chef Mavro, Nobu, and Fête while earning bachelor and master’s degrees in English from UHM, studying abroad in South Korea, acting in, writing about, and directing local theatre, teaching language and writing classes to students from all over the world, creating 3 new humans, and launching The Desk Publishing.
Eleanor loves to tell stories. She loves considering denotations and connotations of language, pulling at loose narrative threads, sharing an author’s vision and helping them to hone it and bring the best possible version of it to their audience—that’s Eleanor’s superpower.
“When I’m in editor mode, it’s like solving a puzzle. A little alarm goes off in my brain somewhere when I am reading and there’s room for improvement, and it won’t stop until I resolve whatever is bothering me.”
Got a story to tell? The Desk can help.