Tarini Sipahimalani, Author at Penguin Books https://www.penguin.com/author/tsipahimalani/ Because Reading Matters Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:27:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://www.penguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-logo-sm-view-32x32.gif Tarini Sipahimalani, Author at Penguin Books https://www.penguin.com/author/tsipahimalani/ 32 32 Ruoxi Chen, Executive Editor https://www.penguin.com/ruoxi-chen-executive-editor/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:18:45 +0000 https://www.penguin.com/?p=10497 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…

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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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Molly Donovan, Editorial Assistant https://www.penguin.com/molly-donovan-editorial-assistant/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:42:46 +0000 https://www.penguin.com/?p=10408 Molly Donovan joined Putnam in 2024. She enjoys upmarket commercial fiction across multiple genres, including speculative fiction, queer literature, and romance, layered with diverse cultural elements and experiences. Before joining Putnam, she worked at Springer Nature and Melville House, where she plucked Flux by Jinwoo Chong out of the slush pile, the first Indie Next pick for…

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Molly Donovan joined Putnam in 2024. She enjoys upmarket commercial fiction across multiple genres, including speculative fiction, queer literature, and romance, layered with diverse cultural elements and experiences. Before joining Putnam, she worked at Springer Nature and Melville House, where she plucked Flux by Jinwoo Chong out of the slush pile, the first Indie Next pick for Melville House in five years. Books Molly would have loved to acquire: the Never Whistle at Night anthology, Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, and Rachel Hawkins’s Her Royal Highness.  

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Brianna Fairman, Assistant Editor https://www.penguin.com/brianna-fairman-assistant-editor/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:41:24 +0000 https://www.penguin.com/?p=10406 Brianna Fairman joined Putnam in 2024 and acquires a broad range of fiction across genres. She loves edgy, complex stories with a strong voice, and has a soft spot for brazen female characters, Gothic imagery, and themes of obsession and desire. Brianna is drawn towards curious and heartfelt nonfiction, including writing on science and nature,…

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Brianna Fairman joined Putnam in 2024 and acquires a broad range of fiction across genres. She loves edgy, complex stories with a strong voice, and has a soft spot for brazen female characters, Gothic imagery, and themes of obsession and desire. Brianna is drawn towards curious and heartfelt nonfiction, including writing on science and nature, popular culture, true crime, and select histories.

Brianna has worked with authors like C. J. Box, Rob Hart, Mason Coile, Ivy Pochoda, and others. Prior to joining Putnam, Brianna was at MCD/FSG, where she edited New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Tess Sharpe’s forthcoming sapphic thriller No Body No Crime, and worked with other bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Chris Pavone, Louisa Luna, Amanda Nguyen, Catherine Lacey, Laura van den Berg, Robin Sloan, and more.

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Lindsay Sagnette, Vice President, Editor-in-Chief https://www.penguin.com/lindsay-sagnette-vice-president-editor-in-chief/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:47:49 +0000 https://www.penguin.com/?p=10167 Lindsay Sagnette joined Putnam in 2024. Prior to that she worked at Atria, where she oversaw the relaunch of Washington Square Press, and acquired and edited bestselling authors such as Rebecca Serle, Jamie Ford, Lisa Jewell, Patti Callahan Henry, and Zakiya Dalila Harris. She also served as editorial director for fiction at Crown, Hogarth, and…

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Lindsay Sagnette joined Putnam in 2024. Prior to that she worked at Atria, where she oversaw the relaunch of Washington Square Press, and acquired and edited bestselling authors such as Rebecca Serle, Jamie Ford, Lisa Jewell, Patti Callahan Henry, and Zakiya Dalila Harris.

She also served as editorial director for fiction at Crown, Hogarth, and SJP for Hogarth imprints, where she edited and acquired such titles as Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra, I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan, Ruby by Cynthia Bond, and A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza. She has also held roles at Grove/Atlantic, St. Martin’s Press, and Riverhead.

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Tarini Sipahimalani, Assistant Editor https://www.penguin.com/tarini-sipahimalani-assistant-editor/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:15:29 +0000 https://www.penguin.com/?p=9857 Tarini Sipahimalani joined Putnam in 2021 and acquires bold, voice-driven upmarket fiction. She’s drawn to emotionally resonant and psychologically provocative stories that speak to the universalities of the human experience, excavate cultural truths, and offer an incisive reflection of the world by visceral way of mind. She loves binge-reads that don’t shy away from characters’…

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Tarini Sipahimalani joined Putnam in 2021 and acquires bold, voice-driven upmarket fiction. She’s drawn to emotionally resonant and psychologically provocative stories that speak to the universalities of the human experience, excavate cultural truths, and offer an incisive reflection of the world by visceral way of mind. She loves binge-reads that don’t shy away from characters’ messy or darker depths, and narratives that span the spectrum from haunting to healing, be it by connecting the peculiar with the sublime, a sweeping love story with a strong coming-of-self arc, or through a striking sardonic voice.

Tarini’s recent and upcoming titles include Japanese bestsellers in translation The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu, The Convenience Store by the Sea by Sonoko Machida, and Messenger Cat in a Cafe by Nagi Shimeno; Korean bestseller The Hyehwa-Dong Grandma by Kim Jiyun; vibrant queer coming-of-age debut Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee; Winging It with You by beloved bookstagrammer Chip Pons; explosive literary thriller Until Alison by Kate Russo; screenwriter Kirsten King’s A Good Person, a dark comedic twist on the spouse-suspect trope; Salomé by Leslie Baird, a contemporary gothic and feminist reclamation of the original femme fatale; acclaimed author Laura Sims’ The Man, exploring art, violence, fame, ownership, and the very real threats that linger inside and outside the confines of the mind; and award-winning translator Lizzie Buehler’s endearingly funny debut The Obsessed, a big-hearted portrait of the anxieties of desire. She also edits #1 New York Times bestseller John Sandford, Jeffery Deaver, and the Stuart Woods estate.

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Aranya Jain, Assistant Editor https://www.penguin.com/aranya-jain-assistant-editor/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:09:57 +0000 https://www.penguin.com/?p=9855 Aranya Jain joined Putnam in 2021 and acquires high-concept fiction, especially contemporary fantasy geared toward a commercial audience. She’s easily lured by a beguiling voice or an uncanny premise, something that unnerves, inspires whimsy, or expands our curiosity about the scope of the universe. Grounded fantasy, upmarket horror, mainstream science fiction, and literary speculative fiction…

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Aranya Jain joined Putnam in 2021 and acquires high-concept fiction, especially contemporary fantasy geared toward a commercial audience. She’s easily lured by a beguiling voice or an uncanny premise, something that unnerves, inspires whimsy, or expands our curiosity about the scope of the universe. Grounded fantasy, upmarket horror, mainstream science fiction, and literary speculative fiction are her sweet spots. Aranya is keen to champion BIPOC, queer, and otherwise marginalized perspectives.

Aranya edits the #1 New York Times bestselling Clive Cussler series, Frederick Forsyth, Josh Winning, David Ellis, Joel H. Morris, Kia Abdullah, Jennifer Herrera, Rachel Eve Moulton, and Hiyoko Kurisu. Her upcoming titles include Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning, The Best Lies by David Ellis, and The Amberglow Candy Store by Hiyoko Kurisu.

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Ashley Di Dio, Associate Editor https://www.penguin.com/ashley-di-dio-assistant-editor/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:05:17 +0000 https://www.penguin.com/?p=9853 Ashley Di Dio joined Putnam in 2020 and publishes upmarket book club fiction across multiple genres that focuses on resilient characters, diverse perspectives, and asks big moral questions. Her nonfiction leans narrative in nature and includes memoir, self-help, psychology, and select history with a pop culture, millennial/gen-z, or feminist bent. Ashley has worked with New…

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Ashley Di Dio joined Putnam in 2020 and publishes upmarket book club fiction across multiple genres that focuses on resilient characters, diverse perspectives, and asks big moral questions. Her nonfiction leans narrative in nature and includes memoir, self-help, psychology, and select history with a pop culture, millennial/gen-z, or feminist bent.

Ashley has worked with New York Times bestselling and acclaimed authors Jan Karon, Naomi Krupitsky, Jill Santopolo, Frances Liardet, Annabel Monaghan, KJ Dell’Antonia, and Amita Parikh, among others. Her recent and upcoming fiction includes Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam, Four Squares by Bobby Finger, While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi, The Price You Pay by Nick Petrie, The Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy, and Hot Summer by Elle Everhart. Her recent and upcoming nonfiction includes Too Tired to Fight by Erin and Stephen Mitchell, The Relaxed Woman by Nicola Jane Hobbs, and The Cost of Quiet by Colette Fehr. 

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