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Denise Oswald
VP & Editor-in-Chief
Denise Oswald is vice president and editor-in-chief of Pantheon. She began her career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where she worked for thirteen years, managing the Faber list for ten. Prior to joining KDPG, she was executive editor at Ecco, where she oversaw the nonfiction list. Her areas of interest include current affairs, big-idea books, social justice, pop culture and cultural criticism, science, nature, and the environment. Her books have been the recipient of numerous awards, including PEN, Whiting, Discover, and, most recently, the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Benjamin Moser’s Sontag and the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Imani Perry’s South to America. Among the national bestsellers she has published are Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton, Thanks, Obama by David Litt, Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade, Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels, The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young, and the #1 New York Times bestsellers 10% Happier by Dan Harris and Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison.
Deb Garrison
Executive Editor
Deb Garrison, formerly an editor at The New Yorker and the author of the bestselling poetry collection A Working Girl Can’t Win, joined book publishing in 2000 as the poetry editor at Alfred A. Knopf and a senior editor at Pantheon Books. Her areas of interest include poetry, literary fiction, biography, and books of Jewish interest (for Schocken). Among her authors are Heather Clark, Catherine Cohen, Mary Gaitskill, Julia Glass, David Grossman, Robin Coste Lewis, Sharon Olds, Joseph O’Neill, Clare Sestanovich, Joy Williams, and Kevin Young; she also works with the literary estates of Frank O’Hara, Oliver Sacks, and John Updike.
Naomi Gibbs
Executive Editor
Naomi Gibbs is an executive editor at Pantheon Books. Previously, she worked in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt trade division. She acquires literary, upmarket, and genre-bending fiction, both American and international, as well as select memoirs, essays, and narrative nonfiction. Some of her recent and forthcoming titles include the National Book Award finalist Chain-Gang All-Stars and Friday Black by New York Times bestselling author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree; Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, finalist for the National Book Award; How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by nationally bestselling author Alexander Chee, winner of the Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary honoree; Thin Skin by National Book Award finalist Jenn Shapland; No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay; Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen, one of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year; and The Dream Hotel by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami.
Concepción de León
Senior Editor
Concepción de León is a senior editor for nonfiction at Pantheon, where she acquires a range of titles, including investigative journalism, big-idea books, and social or cultural criticism, with particular interest in emerging Latine and underrepresented writers. Prior to joining Penguin Random House, she worked in journalism for nearly a decade, including five years as a writer and reporter for The New York Times, where she covered writers, books, and the publishing industry for the Books section. At the Times, she also launched El Espace, a column for news and culture targeted toward a Latine audience, and contributed across the paper, with bylines in Travel, Styles, Culture, Express, and more. Before landing at the Times, Concepción was an editor at Glamour magazine, working with the news and culture editors and spearheading a relaunch of the Work and Money section. She’s also held positions at New York magazine and Penguin Young Readers.
Anna Kaufman
Editor
Anna Kaufman worked as an independent bookseller and book buyer before joining Vintage/Anchor in 2017. She brings her frontline perspective of customers’ wants and needs to her work as an editor at Pantheon (up to and including figuring out what book someone is looking for when all they can tell you is “I think the cover’s blue”). She loves championing genre-bending literary fiction, such as GennaRose Nethercott’s Thistlefoot, Erin A. Craig’s A Land So Wide, Jane Pek’s The Verifiers, the bestselling Indigenous dark fiction anthology Never Whistle at Night, Claudia Gray’s Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney mysteries, and Mattie Lubchansky’s bestselling graphic novel, Simplicity. She also adores heartfelt narrative nonfiction, such as Karen Fine’s New York Times bestselling The Other Family Doctor, Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility and Year of the Tiger, and Lauren Hough’s upcoming travel memoir, Monster of a Land. She remains, at her core, a big ol’ nerd and will happily trade D&D tips (currently playing: half-orc barbarian, 5th level).
Zach Phillips
Editor
Zach Phillips is an editor at Pantheon, where he specializes in narrative nonfiction, history, biography, and memoir, as well as some literary fiction and graphic nonfiction and novels. He is especially interested in progressive politics, forgotten histories, investigative reportage, and queer firebrands. Some of his recent and forthcoming titles are Nicked by National Book Award-winner M. T. Anderson; Health and Safety by Emily Witt, which won the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize; Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood; Ginseng Roots by Eisner and Ignatz Prize-winner Craig Thompson; Queen Mother by Whiting Award-winning historian Ashley D. Farmer; How Bright the Path Grows by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain, and Basic Pistol by Harel Shapira.
Chip Kidd
Editor-at-Large, Graphic Novels 
As editor-at-large for graphic novels at Pantheon since 2000, Chip Kidd has worked with some of the very best artists in the industry, including Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, David Mazzucchelli, Sonny Liew, Michael Cho, Alex Ross, and Gengoroh Tagame, among many others. He is the recipient of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communications and the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He is the author of several graphic novels himself, including Batman: Death by Design for DC Comics and the upcoming Avengers: The Veracity Trap for Marvel.
David Treuer
Editor-at-Large
New York Times bestselling author David Treuer is Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, three Minnesota Book Awards, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. His most recent book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, was a New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award finalist, a Minnesota Book Prize winner, a California Book Prize winner, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, was named a “Best Book of the Century” by Kirkus Reviews, and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a professor of English at USC. Treuer joined Pantheon in 2021 as an editor-at-large and has acquired fiction, general nonfiction, and history. He is keenly interested in reading and acquiring literary fiction, smart genre fiction, nonfiction, narrative history, memoir, Indigenous voices, Asian American voices, and world literature.
Lisa Kwan
Assistant Editor
Lisa Kwan is an assistant editor at Pantheon Books. They have worked alongside authors such as Margo Jefferson, Samantha Irby, Mark Z. Danielewski, Keith O’Brien, Susanna Moore, and Gregory Pardlo, among others. Lisa is interested in literary, upmarket, and genre-bending fiction that is immersive and character-driven, and that speaks to a contemporary issue or idea, whether it be political, philosophical, or whimsical. On the nonfiction side, they are drawn to works of cultural criticism, literary memoir, investigative journalism, and narrative nonfiction, particularly those that explore gender, sexuality, social inequity, diaspora, or a particular subculture. Lisa graduated from the University of Oregon with a double major in anthropology and French. They live in Brooklyn, New York.
Shanna Milkey
Assistant Editor
Shanna Milkey is an assistant editor at Pantheon Books, where she supports Editor-in-Chief Denise Oswald and Editor-at-Large David Treuer. She is interested in literary and upmarket fiction, genre-bending and speculative stories, and epic multigenerational tales, as well as sharp cultural criticism and character-forward narrative nonfiction, history, and memoir. Prior to joining Pantheon, she worked at HarperCollins’ Amistad and Ecco imprints. In her time at Pantheon and elsewhere, she’s worked alongside authors such as Josiah Hesse, Mary Annette Pember, Damon Young, Stephanie Fairyington, MJ Corey, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Chloe Dalton, Attica Locke, Rachel L. Swarns, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Lorna Goodison, Benjamin Busch, John Strausbaugh, and Bill Cheng.
Zuleima Ugalde
Editorial Assistant
Zuleima Ugalde is an editorial assistant at Pantheon, Schocken, and Alfred A. Knopf, supporting the desks of Deb Garrison and Ben Hyman. At Pantheon and Schocken, Zuleima has worked alongside authors such as Heather Clark, Chris Heath, Joseph O’Neill, Boo Trundle, Jonathan Wilson, Laura Warrell, Alexis Landau, and many others. Her favorite reads include literary fiction that is thought-provoking, transportive historical fiction that captures a unique sense of time and place, and narrative and literary nonfiction projects with a spirit of intellectual inquiry, and she is looking to acquire books in the same vein. She lives in New York City and enjoys searching for good reading spots throughout the city.
Beatrice Chaudoin
Editorial Assistant
Beatrice Chaudoin is an editorial assistant at Pantheon, where she supports the desks of Zach Phillips and Concepción de León. Beatrice has worked alongside authors such as Paola Ramos, Jamie Hood, M.T. Anderson, Ben Passmore, Ashley D. Farmer, and Marcia Chatelain. She enjoys literary and historical fiction, narrative nonfiction with a radical point of view, and most forms of history. She holds a dual master’s degree in international and world history.
Tina Nouri-Mahdavi
Editorial Assistant
Tina Nouri-Mahdavi is an editorial assistant supporting the desks of Anna Kaufman and Chip Kidd. Her favorite reads are literary female- or queer-authored fiction, genre-bending novels, and works in translation. On the nonfiction side, she loves investigative journalism, literary memoirs, and essays. Tina is drawn to projects that amplify underrepresented voices, particularly those of immigrants and first-generation Americans. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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William J. Thomas
William J. Thomas is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Doubleday. He joined the company as Editor in 1993, became Editor-in-Chief in 1998, and Publisher and Editor-in-Chief in 2008. During his tenure Doubleday has published hundreds of New York Times bestsellers, nine Pulitzer Prize Winners, three National Book Award winners, five National Book Critics Circle Award winners, several finalists for these prizes, over 125 New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, several of which were Top Ten choices, many dozens of B&N Discover picks, Amazon Best Books of the Year, and Indie Next Picks.
In addition to his managerial duties, he also edits a select number of titles. New York Times bestsellers he has edited include the #1 bestsellers The Lost City of Z, The Wager, and Killers of the Flower Moon (National Book Award Finalist) by David Grann; the #1 bestsellers The Nickel Boys (Pulitzer Prize winner) and The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner) by Colson Whitehead; the #1 bestseller London Falling, Empire of Pain (winner of the Baillie-Gifford Prize) and Say Nothing (National Book Critics Circle Award winner) by Patrick Radden Keefe; The Dark Side (Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize) and Dark Money (Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Prize) by Jane Mayer; The Wide Wide Sea, In the Kingdom of Ice, Blood and Thunder, and Ghost Soldiers (Winner of the PEN USA Award) by Hampton Sides; The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time (Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Whitbread Book of the Year) by Mark Haddon; King of Kings and Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson; The Wave and The Underworld by Susan Casey; The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award) by Jonathan Lethem; The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender; Don’t Get Too Comfortable and Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff; The River of Doubt, Destiny of the Republic, and River of the Gods by Candice Millard; Under the Banner of Heaven, Where Men Win Glory, and Missoula by Jon Krakauer; the #1 bestseller The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster; the #1 bestseller The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci, and the #1 bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom.
Kristine Puopolo
Kristine Puopolo is Vice President, Editorial Director, Nonfiction, at Doubleday Books. She has edited bestselling and prize-winning nonfiction at Penguin Random House since 2001, including three books that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction: Gulag (2003) by Anne Applebaum, The Dead Hand (2009) by David Hoffman, and Black Flags (2015) by Joby Warrick.
Her titles include the #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Valley Road (2020) by Robert Kolker, one of the New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year; the #1 New York Times bestseller Framed by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (2024); Two Roads Home (2023) by Daniel Finkelstein, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; Under the Skin (2022) by Linda Villarosa, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Evolution of Beauty (2017) by Richard Prum, one of the New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Strangers in the Land by Michael Luo (2025), and many New York Times bestsellers including: Miracles and Wonder by Elaine Pagels (2025), Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum (2024), When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow (2024), Why We Remember by Charan Ranganath (2024), The Divider: Trump in the White House (2022) and The Man Who Ran Washington (2020) by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, More (2024) by Molly Roden Winter, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got was this Lousy T-shirt (2024) by TikTok star and CEO Madeline Pendleton, The Destructionists (2022) by Dana Milbank, Gods of the Upper Air (2019) by Charles King (finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), Richard Nixon (2017) by John A. Farrell (winner of the PEN Bograd/Weld Prize for Biography and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Billion Dollar Spy (2015) by David E. Hoffman, The General vs. the President (2016) by H. W. Brands, and The Teacher Wars (2014) by Dana Goldstein; plus Days of Fire (2013) by Peter Baker, one of the New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year, and Megan Stack’s Every Man in the Village is a Liar (2010), a finalist for the National Book Award.
Kris welcomes a wide variety of non-fiction submissions, especially in history, politics, current affairs, biography, narrative nonfiction, psychology, work/career, women’s issues, and memoir.
Lee Boudreaux
Lee Boudreaux, Vice President and Executive Editor, joined Doubleday in 2018 and publishes exclusively fiction, seeking out original voices notable for their mastery of language, commanding narrative momentum, and, oftentimes, sense of humor. She edited the #1 New York Times bestsellersJames by Percival Everett, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for fiction, and Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. She currently publishes Margaret Atwood (Old Babes in the Wood), Kate Atkinson (Our Noble Selves, forthcoming), Kevin Barry (The Heart in Winter), Michael Crummey (The Adversary, winner of the Dublin Award), Pulitzer-prize winner Andrew Sean Greer (Villa Coco, forthcoming), Claire Lombardo (The Most Fun We Ever Had), Maria Reva (Endling, longlisted for the Booker Prize), Ron Rash (The Caretaker), and many others. From the beginning, she honed an eye for rising talent, acquiring the early works of Patrick deWitt, Madeline Miller, Paul Murray, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Kevin Wilson. Books she has edited have won or been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the NBCC, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Orange Prize, and numerous PEN awards.
Edward Kastenmeier
Edward Kastenmeier is Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday Books. Previously Editorial Director of Anchor Books, he has worked for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group since 1991. He has published the bestselling works of Michio Kaku, Alan Lightman, Chris McDougall, Andrea Wulf, Brian Greene, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Leonard Mlodinow. In 2016, he published Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History. He has also published the mystery/thrillers of Brendan Slocumb, Jo Nesbo, Lars Kepler, Dan Fesperman, Charlotte Vassell, Amy McCulloch, Alexander McCall Smith, and James Ellroy and the literary, genre-pushing works of Terry Pratchett, Mark Z. Danielewski, Nick Harkaway and Kevin Brockmeier. Edward is interested in science, technology, narrative nonfiction, and mystery.
Jason Kaufman
Jason Kaufman, Vice President and Executive Editor, has edited bestselling commercial fiction and nonfiction at Doubleday since 2001, including Dan Brown’s international bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, which has sold a combined 235 million copies around the world. In acquiring new authors, Jason is always looking for unique commercial storytelling with a suspense or thriller element—authors who step outside of conventional models. He recently published #1 New York Times bestselling author Stacey Abrams’ thriller, While Justice Sleeps, in addition to bestsellers by Lincoln Child, Daniel H. Wilson (Robopocalypse) and Jeff Lindsay (Dexter series). He has also published a variety of bestsellers in narrative nonfiction and sports, including award-winning authors John Feinstein (Where Nobody Knows Your Name), Leigh Montville (The Big Bam, Ted Williams) and George Friedman (The Next 100 Years). Prior to arriving at Doubleday, he worked at Pocket Books, HarperCollins, and Turtle Bay Books.
Thomas Gebremedhin
Thomas Gebremedhin is Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday and Editorial Director of Outsider Editions. He joined in 2020 after nearly a decade in magazines, including The Atlantic. His first acquisition at Doubleday was Hua Hsu’s Stay True, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. His first novel at Doubleday, Eric Puchner’s Dream State, was selected as a 2025 Oprah’s Book Club pick.
In addition to Hsu and Puchner, he works with Benjamin Moser, Maaza Mengiste, Amanda Hess, Kyle Chayka, Vincent Bevins, Ayşegül Savaş, Eric Lach, Jen Percy, Merritt Tierce, Julie Phillips, Nell Irvin Painter, David Gauvey Herbert, Aymann Ismail, and Zach Williams, among others. His authors have won or been finalists for major honors such as the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and PEN/Faulkner Award, and have appeared on The New York Times bestseller list.
In 2025, he announced the launch of Outsider Editions, a reissue series devoted to bringing renewed attention to overlooked works in the literary canon, set to debut in summer 2026. The series features writers including Shiva Naipaul, Rebecca West, David Bradley, David Wong Louie, Jean Said Makdisi, William Finnegan, and Han Ong. He acquires memoir, biography, literary fiction, history, criticism, and essays, with a focus on culturally and intellectually engaged writing. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he believes the best books begin at the sentence level.
Carolyn Williams
Carolyn Williams, Senior Editor, joined Doubleday in 2016, and acquires book club and upmarket commercial fiction and select nonfiction. She’s always on the lookout for page-turning novels featuring smart women, unreliable narrators, twisty plots, and memorable families, as well as memoirs and social or cultural histories. She gravitates toward plot-forward stories written from a new or outsider perspective, historical settings with a modern edge, literary and domestic suspense, coming-of-age stories, immigrant experiences, family sagas, realistic dialogue, stories with an emphasis on class disparity or social climbing, and contemporary novels featuring noir or procedural beats. Recent and upcoming projects include Ariel Lawhon’s GMA book club pick The Frozen River, Julie Satow’s New York Times bestseller When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, Lindsay Lynch’s national bestseller and Indie Next pick Do Tell, Allison Epstein’s Edgar-nominated Fagin the Thief, Flora Carr’s The Tower, Caroline Woods’ The Mesmerist, Avery Curran’s Spoiled Milk, Hannah Thurman’s Mercy Hill, and Alison Fragale’s Likeable Badass. Originally from Massachusetts, she lives in New York with her family.
Khari Dawkins
Khari Dawkins is an Associate Editor at Doubleday. A Bronx native, he earned his B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College. His recent acquisitions include Second Lives by Kevin Jared Hosein, an inventive novel exploring grief, identity, and the search for meaning in the aftermath of unimaginable loss, The Secret Racist History of Everything by Kali Holloway which studies the racist origins of many American institutions, I Rise in Fire by Arun Kundnani the biography of political activist H. Rap Brown, and A Hollywood Ending by Yaron Weitzman that follows the last years of basketball star LeBron James career with the Lakers. Khari is looking for fiction that is immersive, complex, and compelling at the line level. He is interested in acquiring a range of nonfiction, including excavated and recontextualized histories, cultural criticism, and narrative journalism. He especially loves to come up with ideas for books that should be written, and work with agents to find writers who can bring them to fruition.
Chris Howard-Woods
Chris Howard-Woods is an Associate Editor at Doubleday. Chris joined Vintage in 2019 and moved to Doubleday in 2023. He focuses primarily on nonfiction. Recent and upcoming projects include Bettany Hughes’s The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which became a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, a number of works by Chester Himes, Arthur Goldwag’s The Politics of Fear, Kelly Jaakkola’s The Brilliance of Dolphins, Ainslie Hogarth’s Strange Harm, Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip, and a forthcoming book about climate and public health. Chris is interested in narratively compelling nonfiction that appeals to a wide readership and offers readers a new or underexplored perspective. Subjects of particular interest include nature, history, science, journalism, psychology, philosophy, medicine, social issues, essays and criticism, and narrative nonfiction generally. Chris has previous experience at OR Books and W. W. Norton.
Sarah Perrin
Sarah Perrin is an Assistant Editor at Doubleday, supporting Bill Thomas, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, and Lee Boudreaux, Vice President and Executive Editor. She earned a BA from Duke University and an MFA from NYU, where she was an adjunct professor and the fiction editor of Washington Square Review. Prior to NYU, she was an Assistant Editor at Knopf. Sarah is interested in voice-driven literary and upmarket fiction that is propulsive, darkly funny, and psychologically rich. She gravitates towards stories featuring unreliable narrators, themes of alienation, identity, and belonging, and anything with an offbeat, speculative, surreal, or absurd edge. She has worked with Margaret Atwood, Percival Everett, Sandra Cisneros, Andrew Sean Greer, and Dave Eggers, among others.
Johanna Zwirner
Johanna Zwirner is an Assistant Editor at Doubleday, where she supports Thomas Gebremedhin, VP, Executive Editor and Carolyn Williams, Senior Editor. She works across literary fiction and nonfiction and is drawn to writers who incorporate humor in their storytelling and showcase a deep appreciation for language at the line level. She is interested in the meeting points of visual art and personal narrative and is compelled by investigative nonfiction that uses meticulous reportage to uncover and attempt to rectify social injustices. A few of her favorite books include Nell Zink’s Mislaid, Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through, Sally Mann’s Art Work, Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain, and Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming. The first author she worked with at Doubleday was Hua Hsu, whose memoir Stay True won the Pulitzer Prize in memoir and the National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography. She has worked with Nell Irvin Painter, Maaza Mengiste, Amanda Hess, Eric Puchner, and Kyle Chayka, among other acclaimed authors. She studied English at Barnard College and worked in the editorial department at Kirkus Reviews before joining Doubleday. She lives in New York.
Lily Dondoshansky
Lily Dondoshansky is an Assistant Editor at Doubleday, where she supports Jason Kaufman, VP, Executive Editor. She is drawn to inventive upmarket and literary fiction with a sharp voice, sense of humor, and a social perspective, as well as clever, darkly funny thrillers that feature moody, messy female protagonists. On the nonfiction side, she gravitates toward character-driven, informative, and politically conscious narrative nonfiction and thoughtful social criticism, particularly that which spotlights the disability experience in a uniquely human way. Authors she has worked with include Dan Brown, Stacey Abrams, Peter Ames Carlin, Daniel H. Wilson, Thomas Fuller, and Katherine Rundell. Previously, she interned at Smithsonian Books in Washington, DC and received B.A.s in English Literature and Government and Politics from the University of Maryland.
Faith Griffiths
Faith Griffiths is an Editorial Assistant at Doubleday, where she supports Kristine Puopolo, Vice President, Editorial Director, Nonfiction. She has worked on books from a wide range of bestselling and award-winning authors, including Robert Kolker, Anne Applebaum, Elaine Pagels, Michael Luo, and H. W. Brands. Faith is drawn to immersive narrative nonfiction with a strong voice and is especially interested in books that explore the environment, women’s narratives, history, and memoir. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in English with Honors in Nonfiction Writing. Before joining Doubleday, Faith interned at The Ocean Project, a conservation nonprofit, and Orion, an environmental magazine.
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Jordan Pavlin
Executive Vice President, Publisher
Jordan Pavlin is EVP, Publisher at Alfred A. Knopf. Authors with whom she is currently working include Maggie O’Farrell, Bret Easton Ellis, Michelle Zauner, Tobias Wolff, Jenny Offill, Susan Minot, Ethan Hawke, Karen Russell, Maggie Shipstead, Julie Orringer, Yaa Gyasi, Tommy Orange, Megha Majumdar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Jennifer Barth
Senior Vice President, Executive Editor of Knopf
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A graduate of Yale University, Jennifer Barth has worked in publishing for over thirty years, fifteen of which were spent at the Harper imprint of HarperCollins. In January 2022 she joined Knopf as a Senior Vice President and Executive Editor; she is now editorial director of the Vintage imprint as well. She edits both fiction and nonfiction, and her taste is eclectic, ranging from literary fiction and thrillers to narrative nonfiction and celebrity memoir. Across the course of her career, she has published over fifty New York Times bestsellers. Recent publications include Kimberly McCreight’s Someone Else’s Husband, Peter Beinart’s Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, Bill Gates’ Source Code, and Lisa Ridzén’s When the Cranes Fly South. Upcoming publications include fiction by Tessa Hadley, Jo Nesbø, and Clémence Michallon, and nonfiction by John Berendt, Hermione Lee, Aimee Mann, Ridley Scott, and Jon Batiste.
Lexy Bloom
Editorial Director of Knopf Cooks
Lexy Bloom oversees Knopf Cooks, our culinary program, for which she acquires and edit cookbooks and food writing, as well as manages the cookbook backlist, home to authors such as Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, and Edna Lewis. Knopf Cooks publishes voice-driven, upmarket yet accessible cookbooks that lend a distinct perspective to a cuisine or culture, from Sohla El-Waylly to Deb Perelman, from Hetty McKinnon to Kwame Onwuachi, from restaurants like Via Carota to Sofreh. Additionally, she works with authors of literary fiction and nonfiction such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Haruki Murakami, and Orhan Pamuk.
Isa Connolly
Editorial Assistant
Isa Connolly is an editorial assistant who works predominantly with the Knopf Cooks team. She has worked closely on cookbooks by Hetty Lui McKinnon, Padma Lakshmi, Kwame Onwuachi, Kevin West, and Irene Yoo. Alongside Knopf Cooks titles, she has also worked on projects by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Haruki Murakami. When she is not reading, you can find her looking for the perfect tuna melt in the city, frosting tiered cakes for birthday parties, or trying new recipes from Knopf cookbooks. She grew up in Panama, went to university in London, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Emily Cunningham
Executive Editor
Emily Cunningham is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. She edits nonfiction across a variety of genres, including history, memoir, biography, and narrative journalism, as well as select fiction. Her list includes the #1 New York Times bestsellers Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Coming Up Short by Robert B. Reich; among her other authors at Knopf are Jason Burke, Suzanne Simard, Yi-Ling Liu, Anand Giridharadas, and Lydia Fitzpatrick. In her prior post at Penguin Press, her list included Andrew Leland’s The Country of the Blind, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Tahir Hamut Izgil’s Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award; and the New York Times bestsellers Good For a Girl by Lauren Fleshman and The Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
Quynh Do
Senior Editor
Quynh Do is a Senior Editor at Knopf, where she publishes serious, expert-driven and narrative nonfiction, including investigative journalism, subject-driven memoir, and essays. She is interested in big ideas, social issues, science & medicine, design & technology, nature writing, memoirs about peculiar jobs, and women’s issues—and considers it her mission to publish informative and inspiring work by underrepresented voices. Previously, she worked at W. W. Norton, Basic Books, and Zando. Her authors include award winners and bestselling authors such as Adam Aleksic, Dan Xin Huang, Ken Duckworth, Cat Bohannon, Tim Wu, Jeanna Smialek, Hannah Fry, Alberto Cairo, and Helen Fisher, among others. She has also served as lead nonfiction editor for award-winning literary magazine American Chordata. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, Quynh was raised in the Midwest, educated at Yale University, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Maris Dyer
Editor
Maris Dyer is an editor at Knopf who publishes both fiction and nonfiction. She is searching for literary and upmarket novels that explore issues like identity, class, and sexuality through a plot with high stakes; as well as voice-driven narrative nonfiction, with a focus on culture, investigative journalism, social justice, nature and travel writing, and music criticism. Her list includes published and forthcoming books from authors such as Jean-Martin Bauer, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Kate Harris, Kerry Howley, Hope Jahren, Tiffany McDaniel, Kimberly King Parsons, Natalie Rose Richardson, Lisa Smith, Annakeara Stinson, Sarah Watling, and Ana Karina Zatarain. In her time at Knopf, she has also worked closely with best-selling and award-winning authors including Ken Burns, Jennifer Close, Lauren Fox, Katherine Heiny, Kevin Kwan, Emily St. John Mandel, Cormac McCarthy, and J Courtney Sullivan. Before Knopf, she assisted literary agent Amanda Urban at ICM and worked in the publicity department of Simon and Schuster. She is originally from Shingle Springs, a small town in Northern California.
Brian Etling
Associate Editor
Brian Etling is an associate editor at Knopf interested in inventive and risk-taking literary fiction, science fiction and fantasy, literature in translation, and nonfiction with a focus on culture, music, nature, and memoir. In his time with the Knopf Doubleday Group, he has been fortunate to work with many bestselling and award-winning authors including James Ellroy, Mark Z. Danielewski, Alexander McCall Smith, Jo Nesbø, Paolo Bacigalupi, Andrea Wulf, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Leonard Mlodinow, and Michio Kaku. His authors at Vintage include Juneau Black, Charlotte Carter, and Kirsty Manning. Prior to joining Knopf, he worked in Sales for Penguin Random House, and before that he was the manager of an independent bookstore in North Carolina. He lives in Manhattan.
Sierra Fang-Horvath
Editorial Assistant
Sierra Fang-Horvath is an editorial assistant at Knopf. She is drawn to literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, particularly works centered on marginalized or unheard voices and that explore themes of intersectionality, class conflict, and coming of age. Prior to joining Knopf, she worked for two years at Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, with authors like Keith McNally, Charlie Sheen, and Rob Reiner. At Knopf, she has worked with authors including Dave Eggers, Ian McEwan, Natsuo Kirino, Rachel Khong, Omar El Akkad, and Elif Shafak. Born in Oakland, now living in Brooklyn, she graduated from Brown University with a degree in International Relations.
John Freeman
Executive Editor
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John Freeman is a writer, anthologist, and host of Alta’s California Book Club, a once-a-month online discussion of a new classic of Golden State literature. He has been an executive editor at Knopf since 2021. Prior to Knopf, he was the president of the National Book Critics Circle, the editor of Granta magazine, a founding executive editor at Literary Hub, and for nearly ten years the editor of Freeman’s, a literary annual of new writing which published early work by Mieko Kawakami, Nadifa Mohamed, Linnea Axelsson, Samanta Schweblin, as well as pieces by Dave Eggers, Rickey Laurentiis, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Camonghne Felix, Tracy K. Smith, Sandra Cisneros, Elif Shafak and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, all of whose work he now edits at Knopf. Books he has edited have won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Writers Prize (then the Folio Award), and have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Lamba Award and others.
Deb Garrison
Editorial Director of Poetry, Executive Editor
Deb Garrison, formerly an editor at The New Yorker and author of the bestselling poetry collection A Working Girl Can’t Win, joined book publishing in 2000, as the Poetry Editor of Knopf and a Senior Editor at Pantheon Books. Her areas of interest include poetry, literary fiction, and biography. Among her authors are Heather Clark, Catherine Cohen, Mary Gaitskill, Julia Glass, David Grossman, Jane Hirshfield, Maxine Hong Kingston, Robin Coste Lewis, Tomás Q. Morín, Sharon Olds, Joseph O’Neill, David Remnick, and Kevin Young; she also works with the literary estates of Frank O’Hara, Oliver Sacks, and John Updike.
Peter Gethers
Editor
In his lengthy career at Penguin Random House, Peter Gethers has started two companies for the corporation – Villard Books, of which he was publisher and editor-in-chief, and Random House Studio, of which he was president - and edited and published, among many others, Lidia Bastianich, Henry Beard, Harry Belafonte, Preet Bharara, Roy Blount, Jr., Jimmy Carter, Stephanie Danler, William Diehl, John Feinstein, Harvey Fierstein, Nicholas Gage, William Goldman, Tom Hanks, Wil Haygood, Robert Hughes, Bill James, Kitty Kelley, Caroline Kennedy, Paul Newman, David Nichols, Nancy Silverton, Steven Sondheim, and Barbara Walters.
He has written 4 books of non-fiction, including the bestselling trilogy about his amazing cat Norton, and 8 novels, including 5 internationally bestselling thrillers under the pseudonym Russell Andrews. He co-wrote and co-produced the hit off-Broadway play OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES, and has written extensively for film and TV. He currently has two projects in development that he is coproducing: the film NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, for Universal Studio, to be directed by Scott Derrickson, and a streaming series for Paramount based on Preet Bharara’s book DOING JUSTICE. As one of the founding members of the Rotisserie League, he co-created the concept of fantasy sports, thus ruining many lives and relationships.
Morgan Hamilton
Assistant Editor
Morgan Hamilton is an assistant editor who acquires fiction and nonfiction with compelling hooks and big pitches. She has wide-ranging taste and is often reading two vastly different things and finding weird ways that they’re alike. For fiction, she works on literary fiction, upmarket women’s fiction, and international fiction. She is also drawn to literary-leaning novels with a romance arc, fantasy, and mythic fiction. For nonfiction, she works on voice-driven memoirs and narrative nonfiction that focus on gender and class, family life and marriage, sex and sexuality, history, and pop culture. Her list includes books by Morgan Richter, Nicholas Fox Weber, and Beatriz Serrano, and in her time at Knopf she has worked closely on books by authors including Anna Funder, Orhan Pamuk, Tom Hanks, Alex Prud’homme, Steve Gleason, and Mia Alvar. Before working at Knopf she was a high school English teacher working in her native state of South Carolina.
John Ingold
Editorial Assistant
John Ingold is an editorial assistant with an interest in literary fiction and narrative nonfiction that is voice-driven, intellectually curious, and a little weird. Prior to joining Knopf, he assisted literary agents Amanda Urban and Amelia Atlas at CAA. During his time at both Knopf and CAA, he has had the privilege of working with award-winning authors such as Kaveh Akbar, Rachel Aviv, Jennifer Egan, Bret Easton Ellis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tayari Jones, Megha Majumdar, Karen Russell, and Joy Williams. A graduate of the University of Chicago, John grew up in Michigan and now resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Jenny Jackson
Vice President, Editorial Director of Fiction
Jenny Jackson is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Knopf; she joined the group in 2002. She publishes a range of literary and commercial fiction, from Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear to Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, to Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, to Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. She counts Dolly Alderton, J. Courtney Sullivan, Chris Bohjalian, Ayobami Adebayo, Peter Heller, Katherine Heiny, Jennifer Close, Caroline O’Donoghue, Erin Morgenstern, and Lauren Fox among her writers. Jenny is also an author and her novels, Pineapple Street and The Shampoo Effect, are published by Pamela Dorman Books at Viking. She is a graduate of Williams College and attended the Columbia Publishing Course.
Margot Lee
Editorial Assistant
Margot Lee is an editorial assistant at Knopf. She is drawn to literary fiction and short stories, as well as narrative nonfiction, criticism, and poetry. At Knopf, she has had the pleasure of working with authors including Ken Burns, Joseph J. Ellis, James Ellroy, Thomas Mallon, Jonah Mixon-Webster, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Mária Elena Morán, Adam Ross, Philippe Sands, Lee Seong-bok, Matthew Shenoda, Bud Smith, Andrea Wulf, and the literary estates of Albert Camus and Chaim Grade. Margot grew up in Sydney, Australia, and graduated from Yale University. Before Knopf, she interned at The Yale Review, BOMB Magazine, and ZYZZYVA.
Erroll McDonald
Vice President, Executive Editor
Erroll McDonald has edited and published, among other authors, Rubén Blades, Harold Bloom, Italo Calvino, Patrick Chamoiseau, Sandra Cisneros, Marjorie Garber, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margo Jefferson, Randall Kennedy, Klaus Kinski, Fran Lebowitz, Daniel Lieberman, Toni Morrison, Abdelrahman Munif, Albert Murray, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Richard Pryor, David Reich, Salman Rushdie, Lucy Sante, Nina Simone, Wole Soyinka, Colm Tóibín, and John Edgar Wideman.
Of Caribbean heritage, he was graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Yale College summa cum laude. He was a fellow in the department of comparative literature at Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and holds an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. A former trustee of PEN America, he chairs the board of directors of The Center for Fiction. He is a professor at Columbia University School of the Arts and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Diana Miller
Vice President, Executive Editor
Diana joined Knopf in 2003 as editorial assistant to Robin Desser and Bob Gottlieb, later becoming associate editor to Sonny Mehta. Among the books she has published are Leila Mottley’s bestselling debut novel Nightcrawling, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Joanna Quinn’s bestselling debut novel The Whalebone Theatre, a Read with Jenna pick; Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black, Giller Prize winner, Booker Prize finalist, and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year; and Yoon Choi’s Skinship, winner of the PEN/Bingham Prize for debut short story collection. Diana also works with Elliot Ackerman, Alaa Al Aswany, Jo Baker, John Banville, Javier Cercas, Richard Flanagan, Juliet Grames, Garth Risk Hallberg, Amitava Kumar, Priyanka Mattoo, Anne Michaels, Jane Smiley, Anne Tyler, Alice Winn, and Evie Wyld.
Tom Pold
Senior Editor
Tom Pold is a senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf, where he acquires and edits cookbook and food narratives for Knopf Cooks, as well as handles backlist titles for Knopf Cooks Classics, like Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, Edna Lewis and Madhur Jaffrey. In addition to the authors below, other authors he has worked with include Nancy Silverton; Lidia Bastianich; and Jody Williams and Rita Sodi of Via Carota.
Todd Portnowitz
Senior Editor
Todd Portnowitz joined Knopf in 2016, after completing a master’s in Italian literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His list includes a range of history, pop culture, fiction, and poetry, with published and forthcoming books from Adam Ross, Ken Burns, Geoffrey Ward, Keza MacDonald, David Sibley, Jonah Mixon-Webster, Ed Conway, Mária Elena Morán, Philippe Sands, Lee Seong-bok, Fergus Bordewich, Zachary Small, Bud Smith, Peter Cozzens, and the Estate of Albert Camus. From the Italian he has translated works by Nicola Gardini, Silvia Ferrara, Pierluigi Cappello, and Jhumpa Lahiri, and he is the co-host of the Brooklyn-based reading series for writer-translators, Us&Them. He grew up on Florida’s Space Coast.
Hilary Redmon
Editorial Director of Nonfiction
Hilary Redmon is the Editorial Director of Nonfiction at Knopf. Before joining Knopf in February of 2025, she worked at Penguin Classics, Penguin, Viking, Free Press and Ecco, where she edited and published bestselling, award-winning nonfiction including The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan, The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, Tattoos on the Heart by Greg Boyle, I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong, The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox, and Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance. At Random House, where she was an editor for nine years, she published multiple bestsellers and award-winners including Educated by Tara Westover, An Immense World by Ed Yong, Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Saving Time by Jenny Odell, and Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz. At Knopf, she continues to work with authors including Ed Yong, Clint Smith, Jenny Odell, and Pamela Colloff. Her authors and their books have been recognized by the National Book Awards, the NBCC, the PEN Literary Awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the Kirkus Prize, and the Goodreads Choice Awards. They have won Pulitzer Prizes, Carnegie Medals, the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, Whiting Nonfiction Grants, Royal Society Prizes, the Wainwright Prize, and have been chosen as favorite books of the year by President Obama, Bill Gates, and The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten.
Tiara Sharma
Assistant Editor
Tiara Sharma is an assistant editor interested in literary and upmarket fiction, and poetry, that is formally inventive, sharply observational, or propelled by an unforgettable voice. Across nonfiction, they are drawn to histories of social movements, cultural criticism, political theory, memoir, reportage, and books that meld genres and disciplines. In their time at Knopf, they have worked with best-selling and award-winning authors such as Ken Burns, Kevin Kwan, Gabrielle Zevin, Bill Clinton, Dolly Alderton, John Vaillant, Gary J. Bass, Michael Finkel, J. Courtney Sullivan, and Chris Bohjalian. Before joining Knopf Editorial, Tiara worked at the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau and interned at n+1. They were born in Jammu, India and live in Brooklyn, NY.
Zuleima Ugalde
Editorial Assistant
Zuleima Ugalde is an editorial assistant at Pantheon, Schocken, and Alfred A. Knopf, supporting the desks of Deb Garrison and Ben Hyman. At Knopf, Zuleima has worked alongside authors such as Robin Coste Lewis, Amitava Kumar, Clare Sestanovich, Leila Mottley, Kay Redfield Jamison, Jane Hirshfield, David Remnick, Elliot Ackerman, Richie Hofmann, Michael Dickman, Ramie Targoff, Garth Risk Hallberg, and many others. Her favorite reads include literary fiction that is thought-provoking, transportive historical fiction that captures a unique sense of time and place, and narrative and literary nonfiction projects with a spirit of intellectual inquiry, and she is looking to acquire books along the same vein. She lives in New York City and enjoys searching for good reading spots throughout the city.