Meet the Team

Deb Garrison

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, biography, and books of Jewish interest. Among her authors are Heather Clark, Catherine Cohen, Alex Dimitrov, David Grossman, Chris Heath, Edward Hirsch, Robin Coste Lewis, Sharon Olds, Joseph O’Neill, Meir Shalev, and Jonathan Wilson; she also works with the literary estates of Frank O’Hara, Oliver Sacks, and John Updike.  

Ben Hyman

Editorial Director

Ben Hyman joined Schocken Books in 2024, acquiring new Jewish-interest work across multiple genres and overseeing the imprint’s distinguished paperback list. Previously, he spent seven years at Bloomsbury, where his list included Isaac Butler’s The Method, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award; Daniel Sokatch’s Can We Talk About Israel?, a National Jewish Book Award finalist; Kidada Williams’ I Saw Death Coming, longlisted for the National Book Award; and Shelley Puhak’s national bestseller The Dark Queens. Books he has edited have also been shortlisted by the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and the J. Anthony Lukas Prizes, among others. Ben began his editorial career at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he helped publish works in translation by Italo Calvino, Patrick Modiano, Norman Ohler, and Thomas Piketty. A graduate of Brown University, Ben was raised in the Philadelphia area and lives in Brooklyn.