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Elizabeth Lynch, Senior Editor

Katie Fehrenbaker — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:13:30 +0000

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Brian Borchard, Editorial Assistant

Heather Faulls — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:21:01 +0000

Brian joined Portfolio in November 2023. He is focused on editing and acquiring nonfiction titles from leading academics, historians, and innovators that are driven by exciting ideas and chronicle untold histories. He joined Portfolio following his graduation from the Columbia Publishing Course and Skidmore College with a B.A. in English and psychology.

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Anu Roy-Chaudhury, Associate Editor

Heather Faulls — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:59:30 +0000

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Parisa Ebrahimi, Vice President and Executive Editor

Yasmin Patel — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:45:31 +0000

Parisa began her career at Chatto & Windus in London, where she worked for ten years editing fiction, nonfiction, and an award-winning poetry list. In 2017, she moved to New York to join Hogarth Books, where her authors included the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Han Kang, Anuk Arudpragasam, Sarah Manguso, Heidi Julavits, Xuan Juliana Wang, Lillian Fishman, Khashayar Khabushani and Sanae Lemoine, among many others. The titles she has edited have been awarded or finalists for the Nobel Prize for Literature, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, the PEN Awards, and the Prix Goncourt (France).

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Mariam Syed, Editorial Assistant

Katie Fehrenbaker — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:15:58 +0000

Prior to joining PRH in 2024, Mariam interned at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group (MCPG). She also worked as a freelance proofreader with a focus on children’s literature, including graphic novels, picture books, middle-grade, and YA novels. She then became a children’s librarian, where she developed her passion for finding and sharing engaging and empowering stories for young readers.

Mariam holds a BS in Communication from Boston University and a Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). When not working, she enjoys discovering new coffee shops, reading a book from her ever-growing TBR list, and being supervised by her two cats.

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Sabrey Manning, Editorial Assistant

Abby Stubenhofer — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:07:03 +0000

Sabrey joined Tarcher in 2025. Prior to joining the team, she worked in editorial at Portfolio, where she supported bestselling authors including Ryan Holiday, Shane Parrish, and Seth Godin. She is looking to acquire books offering effective success strategies based on applied psychology, New Thought, and metaphysics, with a special focus on the intersection of science and spirituality. She is also interested in fresh takes on navigating careers, relationships, and social justice issues—all with the goal of shifting paradigms and allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of themselves, others, and the world.

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Kelly Young, Editorial Assistant

Heather Faulls — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:49:46 +0000

Kelly Young joined Portfolio, Thesis, and Sentinel as an Editorial Assistant in 2025. She is drawn to practical, insightful nonfiction that challenges conventional thought and sparks new ideas and ways of living. Before joining Portfolio, Kelly started her career as a copyeditor, which cemented her passion for working with innovative books that inspire readers.

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Gabriel Rivera, Editorial Assistant

Emma Dollar — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:26:46 +0000

Gabriel Rivera joined Viking in February 2025 as an assistant to Elda Rotor. Born and raised in NYC, he graduated from CUNY Baruch College with a degree in journalism and political science. Before Penguin, Gabriel was an assistant director for an after-school program, where he was able to pursue his passion for education. His interests include literary fiction (primarily 20th century Latin American literature), short stories, and longform narrative journalism, as well as anything that is experimental, metaphysical, or surreal.

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Tiara Kittrell, Editor

Tolani Osan — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:04:07 +0000

Tiara Kittrell is an editor, acquiring picture books, middle grade, young adult, graphic novels, and nonfiction across all categories for the Putnam Young Readers imprint. Prior to joining Penguin Random House, she was an associate editor at Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, where she had she acquired books by Alyssa Cole and Nia Davenport. Tiara first entered publishing as a marketing assistant at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group and assisted on campaigns for Leigh Bardugo, Marissa Meyer, and Katherine Applegate. While she appreciates all genres, her favorites include paranormal, high and grounded fantasy, thriller, horror, and romance. Tiara has a soft spot for diverse, high concept, and emotionally resonant stories. When she’s not working, you can find her watching (arguably) too much TV and annoying her cat, Gus Gus.

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Ruoxi Chen, Executive Editor

Tarini Sipahimalani — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:18:45 +0000

Ruoxi Chen joined Putnam in 2024 and acquires genre-bending crossover speculative fiction for a general audience. She’s drawn to voice-driven, character-forward books that effortlessly slip between genres, worlds, and boundaries, and is looking for deeply specific stories with broad commercial potential that will find their exact reader regardless of what BISAC they live under.

Among her editorial acquisitions are Some Desperate Glory, winner of the 2024 Hugo Award for Best Novel; the USA Today bestselling Swordcrossed; Riot Baby, winner of the World Fantasy Award; Flowers for the Sea, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award; and The Chosen and the Beautiful, a celebrated queer, Asian American reimagining of The Great Gatsby. She’s worked with award-winning, bestselling authors including Tochi Onyebuchi, S. L. Huang, Kerstin Hall, Sarah Gailey, Nghi Vo, Emily Tesh, and Freya Marske, among others. Prior to Putnam, she was at Macmillan/Tor Publishing Group, and she has been recognized for her editorial work with two Hugo Awards for Best Editor, Long Form and the top honor for the Publishers Weekly Star Watch program.

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