Lewes professional wins national Indexing Award
The American Society for Indexing announced Enid Zafran of Rehoboth Beach received a 2024 award in the Scholarly/Technical category for “Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction,” published by University of Virginia Press.
The Indexing Awards, which honor excellence in book indexing, reflect the variety of work that indexers do. Books were judged on elegance, usability, coverage, analysis, access, cross-referencing, accuracy and style.
“We are delighted to hear that Enid Zafran has been awarded this prestigious award by the American Society for Indexing. Enid has long been one of our go-to indexers; her indexes are always carefully thought out, structured and balanced, and they're reliably error-free,” said Ellen Satrom, University of Virginia Press managing editor. Well-constructed indexes are key tools for our readers, both in helping them find the information they're seeking and in helping highlight particular concepts or themes readers might not otherwise have considered.”
Zafran said, “Literary criticism is a difficult category to index.” She said the book dealt with works by multiple authors and comprised complicated ideas like multiple types of feminism and ethics, as well as plot issues.
