[3] There she met Louis D. Rubin, Jr., who became chair of the English Department during her second year, and with whom she would later found and lead Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
A year later she relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, where she joined Houghton Mifflin, initially as a secretary to the editorial staff and eventually becoming an editor of trade books.
[5] During her time at Houghton Mifflin, one of the editors whom Ravenel assisted was Martha Foley, who had edited the Best American Short Stories annual anthology since 1941.
"[10] He closed the letter by asking if she would like to be involved in the enterprise and by Fall 1983 they had issued its first titles including a collection of short stories by Leon Driskell, Passing Through, and a memoir by Vermont C. Royster, My Own, My Country's Time.
[13] With Algonquin, Ravenel edited books by Larry Brown, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, and Julia Alvarez, among others.