PENGUIN - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founder
- President
- Publisher
- Founder and Publisher of Portfolio
Adrian Zackheim joined Penguin Group in September 2001 as Founder and Publisher of Portfolio. He then took on the additional challenge of starting Sentinel in April 2003. In 2018, he announced the addition of another new imprint to the group: The Optimism Press, in collaboration with Simon Sinek.
Previously, he was the Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of HarperInformation, a division of HarperCollins that included HarperBusiness. His editorial career has also included positions at William Morrow, Doubleday, and St. Martin's Press, and his first job was as School and Library Publicity Assistant at G.P. Putnam's Sons, which was then a privately held small publishing company. He later moved to Putnam's Editorial department under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Phyllis Grann.
Among the many bestselling books he edited and published before joining Penguin Group were Good to Great by Jim Collins; Die Broke by Stephen Pollan and Mark Levine; The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams; The HP Way by David Packard; and Swim with the Sharks without being Eaten Alive by Harvey Mackay.
Job Titles:
- VP, Director of Publicity
Alexis Welby joined Putnam in 2011, and in addition to managing the imprint's publicity team, she has overseen the campaigns for Cristina Alger, Chloe Benjamin, A. Scott Berg, Sue Grafton, Robert Jones, Jr., Jan Karon, Hoda Kotb, Jenny Lawson, Bobby Orr, Delia Owens, Dolly Parton, Kiley Reid, Burt Reynolds, and Lisa Scottoline, among others. After beginning her career at St. Martin's Press, she was Associate Director of Publicity at Simon & Schuster where she worked for 11 years with authors including Mark Bittman, Taylor Branch, James Lee Burke, David Carr, President Jimmy Carter, Mary Higgins Clark, Chris Cleave, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Stephen Hunter, David Maraniss, Susan Orlean, Pearl Jam, Paul Simon and Martin Cruz Smith.
Job Titles:
- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor at Berkley
Amanda Bergeron (she/her) is an executive editor at Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, where she acquires and edits a wide range of contemporary and historical book club fiction with women's stories at their core. She works with New York Times bestselling authors such as Emily Henry, Carley Fortune, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Stephanie Dray, Ashley Poston and many more. She started her career at William Morrow/Avon where she published bestselling fiction such as The Alice Network, The Hating Game, America's First Daughter, and What She Knew.
Job Titles:
- Dutton As Publicist
- Executive Director of Publicity
Amanda Walker joined Dutton as Publicist in 2007 and was named Director in 2014. In her Dutton career, she has created and implemented bestselling campaigns for many nonfiction and fiction authors, including Hank Green, Daniel J. Levitin, Tamer Elnoury, W. Kamau Bell, Joseph Finder, Ken Follett, Tracy Chevalier, John Hodgman, and Dan Savage. In addition to managing the publicity department and developing publicity strategies for the entire list, Amanda works directly with many Dutton authors and has orchestrated publicity campaigns for breakout bestselling books including Hank Green's #1 bestseller An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, the Parkland High School March For Our Lives Founders' Glimmer of Hope, Clint Romesha's Red Platoon, Jonathan Tropper's This is Where I Leave You, and Mark Adams' Turn Right at Machu Picchu, landing all of the respective authors on the New York Times bestseller list for the first time in their careers. Before joining Dutton, she worked at Simon & Schuster.
Job Titles:
- Associate Editor
- Associate Editor at Berkley
Angela Kim (she/her) is an Associate Editor at Berkley. She acquires contemporary romance, book club fiction, women's fiction, mystery, and thriller/suspense. She is particularly keen on seeing works by authors from underrepresented communities, as well as sharp stories for the millennial and gen-z audience. Some recent titles include Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala, Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake, Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter, and The Fraud Squad by Kyla Zhao.
Job Titles:
- Stanford Clinical Psychiatrist
Job Titles:
- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor at Berkley
Anne Sowards is Executive Editor at Berkley. She joined Berkley in 1996 and primarily acquires and edits fantasy, science fiction, and romance. She has acquired and worked with many bestselling and award-winning authors, including Ilona Andrews, Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Jack Campbell, Zen Cho, Grace Draven, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and Laura Sebastian.
Job Titles:
- Associate Publisher, Director of Marketing for Putnam
Ashley Pattison McClay is Associate Publisher, Director of Marketing for Putnam. She has been with Putnam since 2015, and with Penguin Random House since 2010. Prior to that she worked at Henry Holt & Company. Since joining Putnam, Ashley has overseen marketing campaigns for franchise bestsellers including John Sandford, Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton, C.J. Box, Clive Cussler, Stuart Woods, and Lisa Scottoline, as well as for novels such as The Immortalists and Where the Crawdads Sing. Previously, she managed campaigns for award-winning and bestselling books by Karen Joy Fowler, Lev Grossman, Jonathan Tropper, and Hilary Mantel.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher, Paperbacks & Backlist
Ben Lee joined Dutton, Putnam, and Berkley as Vice President, Associate Publisher of paperbacks in March 2015. He oversees the paperback conversion program for all of Dutton and Putnam's books. Prior to joining Dutton, Putnam, and Berkley, Ben was most recently VP, Associate Publisher of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster, overseeing campaigns for many New York Times bestselling authors including Brad Thor, Jennifer Weiner, Vince Flynn, Theresa Caputo, Rachael Ray and Buddy Valastro.
Prior to that at Simon, he sold the warehouse clubs and later handled Target, Readerlink, B&T, Ingram and the CBA. He started his publishing career at Random House, where he worked in sales with the warehouse clubs as well as in marketing with the Information Group.
Brent Howard joined Dutton in March 2017, specializing in nonfiction with a focus on history, biography, military, politics and food. In a career spanning seventeen years, he has worked with a wide range of authors, including Martin Dugard, Alex Kershaw, Daniel Stone, John C. McManus, Luke Barr, William C. Davis, James Donovan, Josh Ireland, David O. Stewart, Mark Updegrove, David L. Roll, Phillips Payson O'Brien, Willard Sterne Randall, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Paul Andrew Hutton, Douglas Waller, Gregory A. Freeman, John S.D. Eisenhower, John Oller, Kevin Maurer, Larry Alexander, Jonathan W. Jordan, and Jack Cheevers.
Job Titles:
- Associate Editor
- Associate Editor at Nancy Paulsen Books
Caitlin Tutterow is an associate editor at Nancy Paulsen Books and worked at Putnam Young Readers before joining the Paulsen team in 2021. She's looking for children's books for kids of all ages but is especially interested in acquiring novels where the lyrical meets the fantastical and stories told from strong, driven, vulnerable voices that you feel in your chest, whether that be from laughing, crying, or because you are holding your breath. In addition to editing her own titles, Caitlin assists Stacey Barney. Hailing from North Carolina, she's a Southerner at heart and holds degrees in English and Biology from Duke University.
Caroline joined the Penguin Publishing Group in 2009 and has been with Avery since 2015.
Her many best sellers include The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The End of Alzheimer's by Dale Bredesen, Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer, The Beauty of What Remains by Steve Leder, The XX Brain by Lisa Mosconi, Mastering Diabetes by Cyrus Khambatta and Robby Barbaro, Fat Chance by Robert Lustig, The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds, Mindset by Carol Dweck, and Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley.
She has worked at major imprints, most recently Random House and Ballantine, and her many other distinguished authors include Richard Davidson, Daniel Goleman, Dean Ornish, Tara Parker-Pope, Deborah Tannen, and Andrew Weil.
Cassidy Sachs joined Dutton in 2017 and has a list that's all about empowerment. She is especially keen to acquire narrative disrupting nonfiction and books that flip the script in some way across the genres of journalism and history, as well as expert-led investigations written by trailblazing scholars. She is also seeking commercial fiction that finds perfect balance between lighthearted and heartfelt, and features strong, witchy women at its center. For Plume, she hopes to acquire platform driven memoir and pop-culture with a point. Across both lists she has acquired and edited Nationally and New York Times bestselling books, has worked with award winning journalists and historians, and has published book club picks and Goodreads Choice Awards nominees.
Cassidy's previous and upcoming Dutton titles include Flawless by NPR host at large Elise Hu; New York Times bestselling The World's Worst Assistant by Conan O'Brien's longtime assistant Sona Movsesian; Break the Cycle by trauma psychologist Dr. Mariel Buque; Lyn Slater aka the Accidental Icon's How To Be Old; Naoise Mac Sweeney's The West, a paradigm-shifting history told through fourteen remarkable lives; The Highest Law in the Land, shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award by Jessica Pishko; and Kings of Their Own Ocean by Karen Pinchin. Book of the Month Club pick Darling Girl by Liz Michalski; How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin; Out of Love, a debut and Barnes and Noble monthly fiction pick by Hazel Hayes; The Deja Glitch, a reinvention of the time-loop story by Holly James; and Becky Chalsen's Kismet, the story of two twins, a wedding, a 30 th birthday, all set on Fire Island over 4 th of July weekend.
Charlotte Peters joined Dutton in May 2022 as an editorial assistant. She has previously worked in TV production and held internships at HarperCollins and AuthorPods. Charlotte graduated with a degree in English from UCLA and a masters in Romantic and Victorian Literature from the University of St Andrews. Her reading taste is eclectic, but she gravitates toward anything with immersive, fantastical settings and female characters whose strength speaks for itself. She also shamelessly enjoys a good love triangle. On the nonfiction side, Charlotte is interested in quirky, slice of life history, critical studies of folklore and mythology, topics relating to women's sexual and reproductive health, and anything to do with Shakespeare.
Job Titles:
- Publisher
- Senior Vice President
Christine Ball is Senior Vice President, Publisher for Berkley, Dutton, and their respective imprints. She joined Dutton in 2008 as the Director of Publicity and Marketing after serving as publicity director at Crown.
She was named Vice President of Dutton in 2011, Associate Publisher in 2012, Deputy Publisher of Berkley in 2016 and SVP, Publisher in 2017. In 2019 she was named an "Agent of Change" by Girls Write Now. In 2020, she and Phoebe Robinson joined forces to establish Tiny Reparations Books under the Plume imprint.
Job Titles:
- Editorial Director
- Vice President
- Vice President, Editorial Director at Berkley
Cindy Hwang is Vice President, Editorial Director at Berkley. She joined Berkley in 1994 and has acquired and worked with a roster of bestselling authors including Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sylvia Day, Christine Feehan, Maya Banks, Nalini Singh, Karen White and Jasmine Guillory.
Cindy was heavily involved in growing Sensation into a leading romance imprint, and in the development of the digital imprint InterMix.
Job Titles:
- Editor in Chief
- Vice President
- Vice President, Editor in Chief at Berkley
Claire Zion became Vice President, Editor in Chief at Berkley in July 2015. In this role, she oversees the Berkley, Jove, Ace and Prime Crime lists. She joined Penguin in 2002 as the Editorial Director of New American Library and was appointed Vice President in 2009. Prior to joining NAL, she worked at Hachette and Simon and Schuster. She started her career right out of college at New American Library. Over the years, Claire acquired many romance authors who launched successful mainstream careers, including New York Times bestsellers Linda Howard, Sandra Brown, Barbara Delinsky, Jayne Ann Krentz, Susan Wiggs, Carla Neggers and Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Recently, she's been proud to work with Kristan Higgins, Mary Balogh, Jane Green, Margaret George, Susan Meissner and Karen Rose.
Courtney Young specializes in entertaining and idea-driven nonfiction with a focus on natural and social science, business, technology, culture, and narrative journalism. She has edited books by a number of award-winning and bestselling authors, including Gretchen McCulloch, David Epstein, James Nestor, Carlo Rovelli, Jing Tsu, Juli Berwald, and xkcd creator Randall Munroe.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Executive Director of Publicity, and Special Projects Director of Berkley
Craig Burke is the Vice President, Executive Director of Publicity, and Special Projects Director of Berkley. He oversees publicity campaigns for the entire Berkley list and has worked with many bestselling authors, including Nora Roberts, J.R. Ward, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Jen Lancaster, A. Scott Berg, and Karen White, among others. He oversaw the publicity campaigns for a number of high-profile, bestselling books, including Ricky Martin's Me, Joan Rivers's I Hate Everyone…Starting with Me, and True Love by Jennifer Lopez.
After beginning his career at Alfred A. Knopf, he joined Berkley Books in 1995 and has been the lead publicist on books published by Berkley, NAL, Perigee, and Riverhead Trade Paperbacks, including the international bestsellers The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and The Color of Water by James McBride.
Edward Payson Dutton founded a bookselling firm in Boston in 1852, but it wasn't until 1864 that the eponymous E. P. Dutton & Co. began to publish books in earnest. Its original focus was on religious titles, and the first bestseller was the two-volume The Life of Christ by Frederic W. Farrar, published in 1874.
In 1885, John Macrae began working at Dutton as an office boy; he would spend fifty-nine years with the company, rising in the ranks. He became President in 1923, and in 1928, he bought the publishing house and shared it with his two sons. During Macrae's tenure, E. P. Dutton published notable books such as The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory,Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute, The Conquest of Everest by Sir John Hunt, and Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, as well as works by Lawrence Durrell, Milton Glaser, and Luigi Pirandello.
The company went on to publish books by John Irving (The World According to Garp), James Beard, Peter Matthiessen, Jorge Luis Borges, Gavin Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Gore Vidal, Gail Sheehy (Passages), Ayn Rand, and Mickey Spillane. Dutton joined the Penguin Publishing Group in 1986, and in 2015 became an imprint of the newly merged Penguin Random House.
Emi Ikkanda is an Executive Editor acquiring nonfiction and select fiction projects at Tiny Reparations Books, Dutton, and Plume at Penguin Random House. She previously worked at Seal Press at Hachette, Spiegel & Grau at Random House, and Henry Holt at Macmillan. She publishes a diverse list of award-winning, bestselling, and culturally relevant books. Over the years she has edited #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors, and edited winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Carnegie Medal, Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, and the TIME 100.
Esi Sogah (she/her) joined Berkley as an executive editor in 2022, acquiring women's fiction, historical fiction, and romance. Her lifelong love of romance novels led to career that began at William Morrow and Avon Books before she moved to Kensington Publishing, where she worked on a variety of fiction and nonfiction.
Gabriella Mongelli joined Putnam in 2018 and acquires literary and upmarket fiction and select nonfiction. She's drawn to projects that feature layered, ambitious storytelling, fresh perspectives that spark conversation, and have a lot of heart. From deeply braided family sagas and coming-of-self narratives to clever retellings and book club reads, she is interested is work that is highly transporting and has a literary sensibility with a big, captivating hook.
Authors she has published include Bobby Finger, Falon Ballard, Lauren McBrayer, Jamie Brenner, Olga Grushin, Lillie Vale, and Sean Desmond. She is also the editor for New York Times bestselling authors Eleanor Brown, Sharon Kay Penman, and Stuart Woods. Forthcoming projects include The One by Julia Argy, Wanderlust by Elle Everhart, and Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy. After graduating from Vassar College, she began her career in editorial at Little, Brown & Company before joining Putnam, where she assisted Sally Kim with authors such as Kiley Reid, Megan Abbott, Robert Jones, Jr., Sarah Winman, and Steven Rowley, among others.
Grace Layer joined Dutton in January 2021, after working as an agent assistant at Empire Literary and as a freelance editor. On the nonfiction side, Grace is looking for smart narrative nonfiction by journalists or experts in their field, particularly in the areas of education, intersectional feminism, and true crime. On the fiction side, she's interested in upmarket, voice-driven novels with genre elements that explore the complexities of friendships and family. She is seeking stories by and about BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals. Grace graduated from Brown University with a double major in Literary Arts and Education.
Grace has helped edit The Forever Witness by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Edward Humes, Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna, and Sinkable by Daniel Stone, among others. Her acquisitions include the revised and updated edition of The Dyslexic Advantage by Brock and Fernette Eide and the forthcoming novel A Season of Perfect Happiness by Maribeth Fischer.
Associate Editor Hannah Steigmeyer joined Avery and TarcherPerigee in 2017 with a focus on nonfiction in the accessible science and health and wellness space.
She has a special interest in novel entrepreneurial approaches to science, technology, health, and business. She is the Editor of Giving Hope, Fuel the Fire, and Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 6th edition and has worked with James Clear (New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits), Bishop Michael Curry (Love is the Way), Kelly McGonigal (The Joy of Movement), Dr. Jud Brewer (Unwinding Anxiety), and Dr. Dale Bredesen (The End of Alzheimer's). She also assists Vice President and Publisher Megan Newman.
She grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Kenyon College where she double majored in English and Anthropology and minored in Russian Language and Literature.
Job Titles:
- President
- President of Putnam
Ivan Held is President of Putnam, Dutton, and Berkley. He currently oversees business, editorial, and publishing strategies for Putnam and Berkley.
Ivan started his career as a bookseller in Washington, DC, before moving to the publicity department at Random House, where he worked with authors ranging from Norman Mailer to General Colin Powell. In the late 1990s he was named VP/Associate Publisher and Marketing Director for the Viking imprint of Penguin. Before returning to Penguin in 2005, he founded the Random House Trade Paperbacks imprint at Random House.
Jane Glaser joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2023, after beginning her career at Diversion Books. She is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course and holds a BA in English, summa cum laude, from Cornell University.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Vice President, Deputy Publisher
Jeanne-Marie Hudson is the Vice President, Deputy Publisher of Berkley. Prior to joining Berkley, she was Senior Director of Marketing Communications & Audience Development at St. Martin's Press, where she worked with bestselling authors Kristin Hannah, Emily Giffin, Louise Penny, Lisa Scottoline, Mary Kay Andrews, Janet Evanovich, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Augusten Burroughs, among others.
After beginning her career as a bookseller in Atlanta, she went on to publishing positions in sales and marketing in both print and audiobooks at major houses and was privileged to work with authors like James Patterson, David Baldacci, Danielle Steel, Michael Connelly, Maeve Binchy, and many more.
Jen Monroe joined Berkley in November 2016. She acquires conversation-starting fiction-including book club women's fiction, psychological suspense/thrillers, speculative fiction, and select narrative nonfiction. Previously, Jen spent two years at HarperAudio where she spearheaded original programming, and produced the in-house podcast HarperAudio Presents. Originally from San Francisco, she has an English & Creative Writing degree from Sarah Lawrence College.
Jeramie Orton (she/her) joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2015, after working at Oxford University Press. She is interested in upmarket commercial fiction, fresh dystopian narratives, atmospheric domestic thrillers, and dark psychological suspense. Recent and forthcoming authors she has acquired include New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick Sarah Pearse, June Gervais, and Rafe Posey, and she has worked with numerous bestselling authors such as Shari Lapena, Martha Beck, Richard Osman, J. Ryan Stradal, and Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt, among many others.
Job Titles:
- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor at Berkley
Jessica Wade is an executive editor at Berkley, acquiring primarily in the areas of fiction with a speculative element, horror, and mystery. She joined the imprint in 2004. She has worked with a list of bestselling and award-winning authors and some of her recent and upcoming titles include The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix, The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson, Agency by William Gibson, Cackle by Rachel Harrison, The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay, and A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette.
Job Titles:
- Editorial Director of Plume
Jill Schwartzman joined Dutton in January 2012 with a mandate to acquire platform, publicity, and voice-driven nonfiction, with a focus on celebrity, pop culture, memoir, humor, music, biography, and narrative nonfiction. Recent and upcoming Dutton titles include Nick Offerman's fifth New York Times bestseller Where the Deer and the Antelope Play, Drew Barrymore's second New York Times bestseller Rebel Homemaker, Phoebe Robinson's Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes as well as Ralph Macchio's Waxing On, Ryan Britt's Phasers on Stun, and Kate Gavino's A Career in Books. Other New York Times bestsellers at Dutton include Jeff Tweedy's How to Write One Song, Andy Green's The Office, Robyn Crawford's A Song for You, Brooke Shields's There Was a Little Girl, and Janice Kaplan's The Gratitude Diaries.
Jill is also Editorial Director of Plume, where she recently published the New York Times bestseller Subpar Parks by Amber Share as well as many other books in the pop culture, illustrated, and humor space.
John Parsley oversees the editorial department of Dutton and its imprints Plume, Tiny Reparations, and Caliber, in addition to acquiring a focused list of nonfiction and fiction titles. John was previously VP, Executive Editor at Little, Brown. He has edited many New York Times bestsellers, and authors John has worked with have won or been finalists for the Aspen Book Awards, Books for a Better Life Award, Carnegie Medal, Edgar Award, Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize, Lukas Prize, National Book Award, NBCC Award, NYT Notables, Orion Book Award, PEN Awards, Pulitzer Prize, and TIME 100.
Recent and upcoming titles on John's list include Scott Ellsworth's National Book Award longlist title, The Ground Breaking; Andre Iguodala's The Sixth Man, selected by President Obama as a favorite book; ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl's bestsellers Betrayal and Front Row at the Trump Show; Denise Kiernan's forthcoming Obstinate Daughters; Hell of a Book, the 2021 National Book Award winner in fiction, by Jason Mott; Joe Posnanski's forthcoming Why We Love Baseball; Elizabeth Williamson's Sandy Hook; and Timothy Winegard's bestselling history, The Mosquito and his forthcoming, The Horse.
Kate Dresser joined Putnam in 2021, focusing on upmarket commercial fiction, especially romantic fiction for a mainstream reader. Always looking for the surprising and the clever in women's fiction, in particular, Kate loves stories with a strong sense of place, female characters who save themselves from disaster, and tight narrative timelines.
She edits Sophie Cousens, Jenny Bayliss, Sarah Hogle, Maureen Kilmer and is particularly excited about forthcoming novels by Philip Ellis and Isa Arsen in 2023. Prior to Putnam, Kate worked at Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, where over a dozen years she acquired and edited a wide ranging list of romance, women's fiction, historical fiction, psychological suspense, and commercial nonfiction.
Executive Editor Kate Seaver started her career at a small independent publishing company before joining Berkley in 2005. She acquires upmarket commercial women's fiction-including contemporary and historical-book club fiction, and romance. She works with many bestselling and acclaimed authors including Marie Benedict, Chanel Cleeton, Sara Donati, Kerri Maher, Jenn McKinlay, Victoria Christopher Murray, and Abbi Waxman.
Job Titles:
- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor at Berkley
Kerry Donovan is Executive Editor at Berkley. She acquires upmarket commercial fiction, women's fiction, romance, and historical fiction. Recent titles include Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland, The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley, The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson, and Well Matched by Jen DeLuca. She works with New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors including Jennifer Probst, Sherry Thomas, Laura Griffin, and Samantha Young.
Job Titles:
- Senior Editor
- Senior Editor at Berkley
Kristine Swartz (she/her) is a Senior Editor at Berkley and a graduate of New York University. She acquires propulsive romance, women's fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels, and works with bestselling authors such as Lyssa Kay Adams, Rosie Danan, Rachel Lynn Solomon, and India Holton. When not reading, she's baking overly elaborate desserts in her tiny NYC apartment.
Job Titles:
- Editor
- Editor at Tiny Reparations
Lashanda Anakwah is an editor at Tiny Reparations acquiring fiction and select non-fiction titles. Before joining Tiny Reparations she worked at the Simon & Schuster flagship imprint. She is building a list that captures a wide array of human experiences, and is drawn to edgy voice driven literary, upmarket and commercial fiction , centered on complicated, unique characters. Smart, immersive prose written with craft, intention and depth of feeling is sure to capture her attention. As well as themes of geographic identity, culture, and coming of age.
Lashanda is also looking for transformative memoirs, in addition to narrative non-fiction that answers the "why" and "how" in regards to the socio-political-economic systems we are all mired in, with a clear vision of the way forward.
Lauri began her career as an editorial assistant at Houghton Mifflin Children's Books in 1988, right after graduating from Harvard.
She moved to New York City six years later as Senior Editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, and then joined Penguin in 1999 as Editorial Director of Dial. In her time at Penguin, she has edited the National Book Award Finalists A River Between Us by Richard Peck and The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin; New York Times Bestsellers The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak, Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen, and the Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos; Caldecott Honor Book One Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo and David Small; Coretta Scott King Honor Books How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson and The Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston and Jerry Pinkney; Sydney Taylor Book Award winner Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder; Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Books It's Only Stanley by Jon Agee and The Best Man by Richard Peck; and Sibert Honor Book Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery.
Lexy Cassola joined Dutton in February 2018 and is an associate editor acquiring fiction. She is seeking true-to-life literary and upmarket novels focused on personal relationships and communities; dark humor; and character and setting-driven suspense.
Lexy's recent and upcoming Dutton titles include Our Little World by Karen Winn, a debut coming-of-age story about two sisters in the aftermath of a local girl's disappearance; GMA Buzz Pick A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch, a wry millennial debut about an aspiring novelist who stalks her boyfriend's ex for writing material; and Cai Emmons' Unleashed, an ambitious and transcendent novel about a family in crisis set against the backdrop of California's wildfire season.
Job Titles:
- Associate Publisher and Director of Marketing and Publicity for Both Avery
- Associate Publisher, Director of Publicity and Marketing
Lindsay Gordon is the Associate Publisher and Director of Marketing and Publicity for both Avery and TarcherPerigee. She has spent her career promoting and publicizing non-fiction authors and their books. As Associate Publisher Lindsay oversees all of the customized publicity and marketing campaigns aimed towards securing as much media as possible and effectively getting the books in front of consumers in new and innovative ways.
Lindsay has overseen and worked on the campaigns of numerous New York Times and national bestselling titles, including Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon, The XX Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi, I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher, Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab, The Odd 1s Out by James Rallison and Unwinding Anxiety by Dr. Jud Brewer. Prior to joining Penguin Lindsay worked at the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group at Random House, Inc.
Lindsey Rose joined Dutton in January 2019 as an executive editor with a particular focus on upmarket and commercial fiction as well as thrillers, crime, and suspense.
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Editor
- Assistant Editor at Berkley
Liz Sellers (she/her) is an Assistant Editor at Berkley and a graduate of New York University and Florida State University. She is keen on acquiring witty, smart romcoms, millennial/new adult romance that uniquely blends genres, and modern cozy mysteries. Liz joined the Berkley team in 2019, and her upcoming and recent projects include Cold-Blooded Liar by New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose and Danielle Jackson's debut romance, The Accidental Pinup.
Lucia Watson, Executive Editor, began her publishing career as an editorial assistant at Viking in 1999 and joined Avery in 2005.
Lucia acquires a diverse list of bestselling and award-wining books in categories including health, psychology, science, parenting, graphic nonfiction, and cooking. Her New York Times bestselling nonfiction books include Fiber Fueled by Will Bulsiewicz, M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, M.D., and Marbles by Ellen Forney. She also edits Robynne Chutkan, M.D., Terry Wahls, M.D., and Annie Grace.
Her cookbook list includes the New York Times bestselling The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon, the James Beard award-winning Wine Folly books by Madeline Puckette (published in 25+ countries), Sababa by Adeena Sussman, Jeanine Donofrio's Love and Lemons cookbooks, The Chef's Garden by Farmer Lee Jones, and Joanne Lee Molinaro's The Korean Vegan Cookbook.
Marie Michels (she/her) joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2020, after beginning her career in literary agencies. She has been fortunate to work with a wide range of authors, from New York Times bestsellers Ashley Audrain and Clare Pooley to the late, revered spy novelist John le Carré. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Mark Tavani edits commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. He works with authors Max Barry, C.J. Box, Rory Carroll, Robert Crais, Jeffery Deaver, Karen Dionne, Frederick Forsyth, Lisa Gardner, John McMahon, Fabian Nicieza, Lisa Scottoline, Chris Wilson, Josh Winning, and David Yoon, among others. He has edited numerous New York Times bestsellers, an Edgar Award winner, a winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting, and a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in history.
Job Titles:
- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor at Dutton
Maya Ziv is an Executive Editor at Dutton, Penguin Random House, where she focuses on commercial and literary fiction and select narrative nonfiction. Her authors include New York Times bestselling authors Hank Green, Riley Sager, Adriana Trigiani, Karma Brown, and Erika Johansen, and some recent titles include The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes, The Mutual Friend by Carter Bays, co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, Kaleidoscope by Cecily Wong, and Bad Sex, an exploration of truth, pleasure, and an unfinished revolution by Nona Willis Aronowitz.
Before joining Dutton, Maya was a Senior Editor at Harper, where her list included Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor and Roxane Gay's New York Times bestseller Bad Feminist.
Job Titles:
- Publisher
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and Publisher of Avery
Megan Newman, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Avery and TarcherPerigee, joined Penguin in 2004 where her first acquisition was Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell Esselsyn, MD. The book was not only a New York Times bestseller, but laid the foundation for Avery's role as a leading publisher of cutting-edge books in the areas of health, science, psychology, education, and more. She also established Avery's cookbook program.
Michelle Howry joined Putnam in 2018 and publishes an eclectic list of nonfiction - from the #1 New York Times bestseller I Really Needed This Today by Hoda Kotb; to the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Fair Play by Eve Rodsky; to the national bestseller Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer; to true-crime historian and podcaster Kate Winkler Dawson's acclaimed American Sherlock and Dr. Marisa Franco's New York Times bestseller Platonic.
She acquires both expert-led prescriptive titles in categories like diet, health, wellness, self-help, personal finance, psychology, mindfulness, and parenting, as well as compelling narrative nonfiction titles in history, culture, popular science, nature, and memoir.
Job Titles:
- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor at Berkley
Michelle Vega is an Executive Editor at Berkley. She started her publishing career as an intern for Viking and then worked as editorial coordinator for Alpha Books. She began her career with Berkley in 2005.
Since that time, Michelle has been heavily involved in the Prime Crime mystery imprint working with New York Times Bestselling authors like Rhys Bowen and Miranda James.
Nancy Paulsen has been with Penguin her entire career, starting as an assistant at Viking Children's Books, serving as Publisher of Puffin Books and G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, and then starting her eponymous imprint in 2011. She publishes a list of diverse and award-winning titles, and specializes in editing picture books and middle grade fiction. The authors she works with include Jacqueline Woodson, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Aisha Saeed, Padma Venkatraman, Brenda Woods, Derrick Barnes, Torrey Maldonado, Micha Archer, Ruth Behar, Lisa Fipps, and Varsha Bajaj. Some of the award-winning and bestselling titles she's edited include National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming, Printz Honor winner Starfish, Pura Belpré Honor winner Lucky Broken Girl, Walter Award winner The Bridge Home, Caldecott Honor winner Wonder Walkers, and Schneider Honor winner A Walk in the Words. New York Times Bestsellers include Fish in a Tree, Amal Unbound, Thirst, I Am Every Good Thing, The Day You Begin, and The Year We Learned to Fly.
Executive Editor Nina Shield joined TarcherPerigee and Avery in 2017 with a focus on prescriptive non-fiction.
Job Titles:
- Publisher
- Senior Vice President
- Publishing Group
- Senior Vice President and Publisher of Pamela Dorman Books
Pamela Dorman Books has focused on fiction-especially well-written, accessible debut fiction-since its founding in 2008 by Pamela Dorman, Vice President and Publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/ Viking. In addition, the imprint also publishes upmarket suspense fiction and occasional nonfiction, including memoirs, psychology and personal development, inspiration and spirituality, and books geared toward women's interests.
Pamela Dorman is senior vice president and publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking. In her more than thirty years at Viking Penguin, Dorman has published multimillion-copy, #1 New York Times bestsellers by Kim Edwards, Helen Fielding, Gail Honeyman, Sue Monk Kidd, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and Jojo Moyes. Other New York Times bestselling authors include Ashley Audrain, Paolo Giordano, Shari Lapena, Richard Osman, J. Ryan Stradal, and Rosie Walsh.
Dorman has published New York Times bestselling memoirs by Kelly Corrigan and Julie Metz, and bestselling inspiration by Martha Beck, as well as #1 New York Times bestselling author Maria Shriver. She began her publishing career at St. Martin's Press and is a summa cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Editor
- Dutton As a Senior Editor
Pilar Garcia-Brown joined Dutton as a Senior Editor in September 2021. Previously, she worked at Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She concentrates on fiction in multiple categories, as well as the occasional narrative nonfiction. She's interested in voice and character-driven fiction that upends expectation or plays with genre, and is especially drawn to novels that tackle urgent, contemporary social and cultural themes in an irreverent or humorous way. On the nonfiction side, she is looking for hybrid memoir and essays. Recent and forthcoming titles include: the instant New York Times bestseller Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour; New York Times Editors' Choice The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman; Kirkus Prize winner In Sensorium by Tanaïs; and Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang, which will be produced for TV by Constance Wu. She is currently co-chair of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Fête Committee.
Rocky Pond Books is Penguin's newest children's and YA imprint, with its first titles set to launch in Spring 2023. The imprint will publish books for two through teen, both fiction and nonfiction, with a primary focus on mental health and social-emotional learning.
Publisher Lauri Hornik says, "It has become more and more important to me to provide books that offer comfort and support. That comfort might be through a belly laugh or a gorgeous, genuine expression of what it means to be human, or seeing yourself and your culture depicted on the page. That support might be through a picture book that sparks empathy, or an inspiring nonfiction read about a hero or important moment in history. And that comfort and support will certainly be books that depict all aspects of the mental health experience in an authentic way."
Job Titles:
- Publisher
- SVP
- SVP, Publisher of Putnam
Sally Kim is SVP, Publisher of Putnam. In addition to overseeing the imprint's editorial, marketing, and publicity departments, she acquires and edits her own list of quality fiction with commercial appeal, including New York Times bestsellers by Megan Abbott (The Turnout), Robert Jones, Jr. (The Prophets, a finalist for the National Book Award), Kiley Reid (Such a Fun Age), Chloe Benjamin (The Immortalists), Cristina Alger (Girls Like Us), and John Kenney (Love Poems for Married People). Recent publications include novels by Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Winman, Alma Katsu, Steven Rowley, M.O. Walsh, Nickolas Butler, and Kate Russo.
Prior to Putnam, Sally was Editorial Director at Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, and worked at HarperCollins, the Crown Publishing Group, and St. Martin's Press, after getting her start at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency more than 25 years ago. She's acquired celebrated debuts by Gillian Flynn, Lisa Unger, Courtney Maum, Jami Attenberg, Ann Leary, and Holly Goddard Jones; as well as the award winners The Bright Forever by Lee Martin (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Truth in Advertising by John Kenney (winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor); and The Incarnations by Susan Barker (finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and a New York Times Notable Book). In 2022, Poets & Writers honored her with The Editor's Award.
Sarah Blumenstock started her career selling foreign and domestic rights for Penguin Young Readers before joining Berkley in 2016. She acquires bold, immersive romance and women's fiction novels, and works with bestselling authors such as Ali Hazelwood, Evie Dunmore, Lori Nelson Spielman, and Karina Halle.
Sareer Khader (she/her) is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course and joined Berkley in 2019. She acquires immersive and compelling mystery, horror, upmarket romance, and speculative/fantastical fiction with strong crossover appeal. Within all those genres, she is keen to see more work by authors from underrepresented communities. Sareer has worked with bestselling authors such as Emily Henry, Mark Greaney, Ashley Poston, Carley Fortune, and Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and some of her upcoming projects include Mrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah Adler, Nick Medina's debut thriller, Sisters of the Lost Nation, and Sunshine and Spice by Aurora Palit.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Publisher
- Nancy Paulsen Books for Young Readers As Associate Publisher
Stacey Barney joined Nancy Paulsen Books for Young Readers as Associate Publisher in 2021. She edits a diverse list of award-winning and bestselling young adult and middle grade fiction as well as select picture books and nonfiction. Her list includes New York Times bestselling authors Krystal Sutherland, Renée Ahdieh, Katherine Arden, Ellen Hopkins and American Ballet Theater principal dancer Misty Copeland as well as Caldecott Honor-winning The Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu.
Job Titles:
- Director of Marketing
- Director of Marketing for Dutton
Stephanie Cooper is Director of Marketing for Dutton, Plume, and Tiny Reparations Books. She has 15 years of experience marketing bestselling trade books, including literary and commercial fiction, conversation-starting narrative nonfiction and memoir, and pop culture and design books.
As head of marketing, she has overseen campaigns for bestselling franchise and award-winning authors, including Lisa Gardner, Jonathan Karl, NBA winner Jason Mott, Adriana Trigiani, Phoebe Robinson, Fiona Davis, Riley Sager, Trixie Mattel & Katya, Drew Barrymore, and Nick Offerman. Previously, as Marketing Director at HarperCollins Publishers, she led bestselling marketing campaigns for Barbara Kingsolver, Ann Patchett, Mitch Albom, Jacqueline Winspear, Mark Manson, Peggy Orenstein, and Roxane Gay, among many others. She is dedicated to leveraging the latest analytics and marketplace insights and trends to find the widest possible readership for each book.
Job Titles:
- Executive Editor
- Dutton in 2006 As an Executive Editor
Stephen Morrow joined Dutton in 2006 as an Executive Editor specializing in nonfiction. He edits a wide range of science, economics, psychology, narrative nonfiction, and investigative journalism.
His authors include Stanford clinical psychiatrist Anna Lembke, M.D., whose recent Dopamine Nation landed on the New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists and is being published in thirty languages; acclaimed theoretical physicist, podcaster, and author Sean Carroll, whose latest book, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, the first of a nonfiction physics trilogy, was an instant New York Times bestseller; and preeminent science journalist Carl Zimmer, whose last two books She Has Her Mother's Laugh and Life's Edge were both PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalists.
Forthcoming titles include The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds by psycholinguist Viorica Marian, already sold in ten languages; Writing for Busy Readers by Harvard behavioral scientists Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink; Catastrophe Ethics: How to Be Good in a World of Overwhelming Bad by Johns Hopkins bioethicist Travis Rieder; and The Ends of the Earth by author of the award-winning bestseller Your Inner Fish Neil Shubin. Before coming to Dutton, Stephen founded the imprint Pi Press and the hard science list at Free Press, Simon & Schuster, where he began his trade publishing career.
Suzy Swartz joined Avery in 2017. She works with Lucia Watson on books like The Korean Vegan Cookbook by Joanne Lee Molinaro, The Alcohol Experiment by Annie Grace, Fiber Fueled by Will Bulsiewicz, MD, Sababa by Adeena Sussman, and The Gracias Madre Cookbook. Suzy's first acquisition was The Zero-Waste Che f by Anne-Marie Bonneau, and she is interested in cookbooks, women's health, and personal growth.
Tara Singh Carlson joined Putnam in 2014 from Viking, Penguin. Her focus is on women's fiction that hits that sweet spot between commercial and literary, including historical fiction and contemporary women's stories that are either wildly entertaining or filled with heart. She loves strong female characters that inspire.
She has edited New York Times bestsellers The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison, The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo, and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, as well as the Today Show Read With Jenna pick The Family. She was the first editor to have two books selected by the Reese Witherspoon Book Club. She has worked with celebrated and bestselling authors Lizzy Dent, Eve Chase, Kim Fay, Jennie Fields, Bryn Greenwood, L.S. Hilton, Craig Johnson, Lauren Kate, Maggie Knox, Naomi Krupitsky, Frances Liardet, Annabel Monaghan, Beth Morrey, Nuala O'Connor, Delia Owens, Theresa Rebeck, Richard Roper, Jill Santopolo, Shanthi Sekaran, Natasha Solomons, and Sara Weinman, among others.
Job Titles:
- Editorial Director
- Vice President
- Vice President, Editorial Director at Berkley
Tom Colgan is the Vice President, Editorial Director at Berkley. He started his career at Berkley in 1985. In those days he worked on everything from the novelization of the movie ET: The Extraterrestrial to westerns. He then spent six years at Avon/Morrow and returned to Berkley as an Executive Editor in 1996. He has worked with such bestselling authors as Mark Greaney, Janet Evanovich, Lee Child, and Tom Clancy. Among the New York Times bestselling titles Tom has edited are One Minute Out, Hardcore Twenty-Four, and Tom Clancy Target Acquired.
Job Titles:
- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor at Berkley
Tracy Bernstein is Executive Editor at Berkley. She began her career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux before finding her natural habitat at more commercial publishers like Kensington and Pocket Books. She joined New American Library in 2002 and, despite a fear of driving, merged smoothly into the Berkley lane.
In addition to overseeing the Signet Classics line and the extensive Berkley backlist, she acquires and edits fiction, memoir, and true crime. The New York Times-bestselling authors she has worked with include Jen Lancaster, Montel Williams and Al Roker.
Trish Daly joined Portfolio in 2019 with a focus on narrative and platform-driven nonfiction, especially business and economics, current affairs, big ideas, journalism, and the occasional memoir. She began her career at HarperCollins, where she acquired Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film, and later worked at Little, Brown with the world's bestselling author, James Patterson. At Portfolio she has edited a range of standout authors, from award-winning journalists to game-changing leaders and experts, and is especially drawn to books that inspire and motivate or storytelling that sheds light on a larger conversation or issue. A graduate of Boston College, Trish teaches for NYU's Center for Publishing as an adjunct professor.