meet the team
We are Unfurl.
Unfurl was founded by publishing and podcast veterans Domenica Alioto and Eve Claxton. We met collaborating on Mimi Baird's memoir He Wanted the Moon. We work globally, but are based in Brooklyn, NY, and Berkeley, CA.
Eve Claxton
Eve Claxton is an award-winning radio producer and writer. She has served as co-writer, ghostwriter, or book doctor on over two dozen nonfiction books, including the memoirs The Bridesmaid's Daughter, More than Love, and the New York Times bestselling Legacy. Her co-written book He Wanted the Moon is soon to be an HBO series adapted by Tony Kushner for Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment. She is also the editor of The Book of Life, an anthology of the best memoir writing through the ages.
As a radio producer, she originated and produced the series Busted: America’s Poverty Myths—a six-part podcast special for WNYC’s On the Media—winner of a 2017 Front Page award. Eve won the Peabody and duPont-Columbia awards for her work on the StoryCorps 9/11 collection. She has produced story collections for The Obama Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Atlantic Philanthropies as well as People Talking a documentary special for BBC Radio 4.
Domenica Alioto
Domenica Alioto is an editor, collaborator, book doctor, and ghostwriter. She worked for eight years at Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, where she was most recently a Senior Editor. Focusing on narrative nonfiction, history, popular science, and memoir, she has edited and contributed to numerous bestsellers and critically acclaimed works, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Shameless, Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin’s Career & Family, This is Ear Hustle, A Case for the American People, Bottle of Lies, Black Wave, Accidentally Wes Anderson, Undaunted, The Gatekeepers, Headstrong, The Clancys of Queens, Confessions of a Sociopath, and He Wanted the Moon, among many others.
A San Francisco native, Domenica received her BA and MA from Trinity College, Dublin. She learned the publishing trade at Short Books in London, then attended Columbia University's Publishing Course.
Meghan Houser
Meghan is an editor and writer. She worked as an acquiring editor for a decade across two major publishing houses, Penguin Random House and Macmillan, on a breadth of work spanning memoir, journalism, history, cultural criticism, and popular science. Authors she has worked with include Rachel Maddow, Emmanuel Acho, Ted Koppel, Daniel Libeskind, Ai Wei Wei, Nicholas Kristof, Lauren Markham, Matt Alt, and Gary Krist. She has edited New York Times Bestsellers, winners of the Whiting Award, the Ridenhour Prize, the California Silver Book Award, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, titles shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN Awards, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and an Oprah’s Favorite Things pick. She lives in New York and holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard College.
Makeba Rasin
Makeba is an editor and collaborative writer. She began her career in non-fiction books at StoryCorps, the national storytelling project where she worked on the organization’s anthologies, including Callings and All There Is. Since joining Unfurl, she has focused on narrative non-fiction and memoir collaborations, most recently Sigh, See, Start and Sharks Don’t Sink. She loves to support authors in developing and clarifying their thinking and writing so they can find their story and share it in their unique voice.
She earned a B.A in History from Yale University and an MFA from Brooklyn College, CUNY. For many years, she taught English as an Adjunct Lecturer at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and as an English Teacher at the Dalton School. A native New Yorker, Makeba grew up on the Upper West Side and now lives with her husband and their three children in Brooklyn, New York.
Michael Howard
Michael is a collaborative writer and developmental editor. His primary focuses are memoir, history, and politics. As a musician, he has toured nationally and throughout Europe with Sinkane. He also scores podcasts and films. Michael graduated from Ohio State University with degrees in Cultural Studies and French.