WORKMAN - Key Persons
Amy Gash, Executive Editor, works out of the New York office of Algonquin Books, where she acquires literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. Her books include Ross Gay's The Book of Delights, Julia Alvarez's Afterlife, Bonnie Tsui's Why We Swim, and Rabia Chaudry's Fatty Fatty Boom Boom. Authors whose books she has edited have won the National Book Critics Circle Award (Ariel Sabar's My Father's Paradise); the Audubon Medal (Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods); and the Sami Rohr Prize (Matti Friedman's The Aleppo Codex). She's keenly interested in memoir, popular science, history and natural history, and social justice, but whether it's a book about the evolution of teeth, the history of the pocket, a true crime tale of a Jazz Age jewelry thief, or an exploration of our planet at night, she aims to acquire stories that entertain us and change the way we see the world.
Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a TODAY show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives in San Francisco.
Annie Rains is a USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author who writes small town love stories set in fictional places in her home state of North Carolina. When Annie isn't writing, she's living out her own happily ever after with her husband and three children.
Job Titles:
- Editorial Director
- Publisher
Betsy Gleick, VP, Publisher and Editorial Director, joined Algonquin in 2016 after a career as a magazine writer and editor in New York City and London. She acquires literary fiction and nonfiction, with a special love for stories-be they fiction or memoir-about people: their intimate histories, their connections, their relationships, their conflicts, and their loves. She is also drawn to topical nonfiction, loves a great mystery or brilliantly written work of true-crime, and is always looking for something funny. Her books include Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's international bestsellers The Mountains Sing and Dust Child; Louis Bayard's Courting Mr. Lincoln and Jackie & Me; Kathryn Miles's Edgar finalist Trailed, also CrimeCon True Crime Book of the Year in 2023; Tim Johnston's literary crime novel, Distant Sons; award-winning stories and fiction from Shruti Swamy and Kate Doyle; and from abroad, the works of Booker finalist Fiona Mozley, Northern Ireland's Michelle Gallen, and debut Irish author Roisín O'Donnell. Forthcoming titles include Babe in the Woods, a graphic work of autofiction by painter Julie Heffernan, and Silver State, a literary noir by Gabriel Urza.
Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States in 1992, and he served until 2001. After leaving the White House, he established the Clinton Foundation, which helps improve global health, increase opportunity for girls and women, reduce childhood obesity and preventable diseases, create economic opportunity and growth, and address the effects of climate change. He is the author of a number of nonfiction works, including My Life, which was a #1 international bestseller. The President is Missing is his first novel.
Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on children in crisis. Dr. Perry is the Provincial Medical Director in Children's Mental Health for the Alberta Mental Health Board. In addition, he is the Senior Fellow of the ChildTrauma Academy (www.ChildTrauma.org), a Houston-based organization dedicated to research and education on child maltreatment. Dr. Perry has been consulted on many high-profile incidents involving traumatized children, including the Columbine, Colorado school shootings, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Branch Davidian siege. He lives in Houston, Texas and Alberta, Canada.
Carolyn Brown is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author and RITA® Finalist who has sold more than 8 million books. She presently writes both women's fiction and cowboy romance. She has also written historical single title, historical series, contemporary single title, and contemporary series. She lives in southern Oklahoma with her husband, a former English teacher, who is not allowed to read her books until they are published. They have three children and enough grandchildren to keep them young. For a complete listing of her books (in series order) and to sign up for her newsletter, check out her website at CarolynLBrown.com or catch her on Facebook/CarolynBrownBooks.
Cheryl Day is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author, a James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Pastry Chef, a self-taught scratch baker, and an entrepreneur. With her husband, Griffith Day, she is a cofounder of the Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia, and coauthor of The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. Cheryl is a cofounder of Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice and a founding member of the leadership committee for the James Beard Foundation Investment Fund for Black and Indigenous Americans. Cheryl lives with Griff, her baking soul mate; Story, their beloved dog; and a vast collection of vintage cookbooks in Savannah. Keep up with Cheryl at backinthedaybakery.com and on Instagram at @cherylday, where she lives out her mantra to "slow down and enjoy the sweet life."
Clint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling poetry collection Above Ground and the award-winning poetry collection Counting Descent. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
David Sedaris is the author of the books Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, Naked, and Barrel Fever. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. He lives in England.
Evan Hansen-Bundy, Associate Editor, joined Algonquin in 2022, after three years at Little, Brown and Company. Before arriving in New York, he interned at Graywolf Press in Minneapolis, read for McSweeney's Quarterly in San Francisco, and managed irrigation systems on a ranch in California's Trinity County. Evan acquires plot-driven literary fiction and is drawn to authors who seek to give new perspective to an established genre, as well as novels that move the conversation on contemporary issues. On the nonfiction side, he is looking for narrative proposals that explore underreported cultural phenomena or shed new light on a charged historical moment, particularly literary memoir blended with cultural criticism. Forthcoming titles include: All Friends Are Necessary by Tomas Moniz, Get It Together by Dean Spade, Gaysians by Mike Curato, Liquid by Mariam Rahmani, and Treat Them as Buffalo by Blair Palmer Yoxall.
Kathy Pories, Executive Editor, first joined Algonquin as an editorial intern after gaining her Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She is primarily interested in literary fiction that has a compelling narrative, but is also a huge fan of commercial fiction well told; and she also acquires narrative nonfiction. Authors she has worked with include Gabrielle Zevin, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Thrity Umrigar, Lisa Ko, Lauren Grodstein, Gabriel Bump, Jill McCorkle, Oscar Hokeah, Hillary Jordan, Silas House, Daniel Wallace, Lee Smith, Robert Olmstead, and Jean Thompson.
Madeline Jones, Editor, joined Algonquin in 2021 by way of Henry Holt and Simon & Schuster, and acquires mostly narrative nonfiction titles. She especially loves immersive, character-driven journalism, on topics ranging from environmentalism to fashion, psychology to politics, and sociology to pop culture. She's also drawn to voicey essay collections steeped in research and cultural references, and books by experts - whether via the academy or lived experience. Maddie publishes the occasional novel or story collection, usually in translation or otherwise international in theme and setting. She's worked with Bora Chung, Anna Lekas Miller, Erika Hayasaki, Malaika Jabali, Molly Ball, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, Elena Medel, Hilary Mantel, and Chelsea Conaboy.