Tiny Reparations Team Archives - Penguin Books

Emi Ikkanda, Executive Editor

Caroline Payne — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:18:42 +0000

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, and Spiegel & Grau at Random House. 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.

Highlights on her list include #1 New York Times bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans, Josephine Baker’s memoir Fearless and Free, Carla Power’s Pulitzer finalist Home, Land, Security, TIME 100 honoree Tourmaline’s Marsha, TikTok star and leadership coach John Wang’s Big Asian Energy, Minda Harts’s Right Within, Arianna Davis’s What Would Frida Do?, international bestselling novelist Michael David Lukas’s The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, Sanaë Lemoine’s New York Times Editor’s Choice The Margot Affair, NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott’s Back to Earth, and former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao’s Reset.

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Lashanda Anakwah, Editor

Grace Layer — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:53:00 +0000

Lashanda Anakwah is an editor at Tiny Reparations Books acquiring fiction and select non-fiction titles. Before joining Tiny Reparations she worked at the Simon & Schuster flagship imprint where she co-acquired The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson, a Reese’s Book Club pick.

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.

Her upcoming titles include Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis, Francine’s Spectacular Crash a Burn by Renee Swindle, and This Kind of Trouble by Tochi Eze.

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Jamie Knapp, Director of Publicity

jaaronson — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:46:00 +0000

Jamie Knapp is the Director of Publicity for Plume and Tiny Reparations Books and the Associate Director of Publicity for Dutton. She also serves as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council Representative for the PPG Division at Penguin Random House.

Since joining Dutton in 2008, she has built buzzworthy and bestselling campaigns for many books including the National Book Award Winner for Fiction Hell of a Book by Jason Mott, the Read with Jenna pick The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré, NBA Star Andre Iguodala’s The Sixth Man, and the NYT instant bestseller Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li.

Other authors she has worked with include Drew Barrymore, Karma Brown, Liam Callanan, Harlan Coben, Martin Duberman, Craig Ferguson, Kai Harris, Tami Hoag, Jeff Lindsay, Trixie Mattel and Katya, Sona Movsesian, Megan Mullaly, Nick Offerman, Bill Russell, Phoebe Robinson, E.G. Scott, Daniel Stone, David Wright, and many others.

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Phoebe Robinson, Founder

Grace Layer — Wed, 12 May 2021 20:47:00 +0000

Phoebe Robinson is a stand-up comedian, writer, producer, and actress. She is the co-creator and co-star of the hit podcast turned HBO series 2 Dope Queens and other critically acclaimed podcasts including Sooo Many White Guys and Black Frasier. She’s also the New York Times bestselling author of You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain and Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay, which was developed into a Freeform series. Additionally, Phoebe starred in the films Ibiza and What Men Want, and was a moderator for Michelle Obama’s Becoming book tour where she interviewed the former first lady. In 2019, Phoebe launched Tiny Reparations, a production company under ABC Signature, whose first series Doing the Most with Phoebe Robinson, premiered April 2021 on Comedy Central. In 2021, Phoebe published her third book of essays Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes, which quickly became a national bestseller and the inaugural title from her imprint, Tiny Reparations Books, which champions writers of color. Her debut hour comedy special, Sorry, Harriet Tubman, premiered Oct 2021 on HBO Max.

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