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Elizabeth Lynch, Senior Editor

Katie Fehrenbaker — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:13:30 +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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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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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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Molly Donovan, Editorial Assistant

Tarini Sipahimalani — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:42:46 +0000

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

Tarini Sipahimalani — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:41:24 +0000

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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Lauren Ball, Publicist

Heather Faulls — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:59:37 +0000

Lauren joined Portfolio in January 2023 after working in the self-publishing and music industries. She is passionate about discovering ways to connect books with their readers and has worked with multiple New York Times bestselling titles including Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence and Vivian Tu’s Rich AF.

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Caitlin O’Connell, Associate Editor

Katie Fehrenbaker — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:57:04 +0000

Caitlin O’Connell is the Associate Editor on the licensing team currently editing titles for Sonic the Hedgehog, Roald Dahl, SpongeBob, Garfield, and more. She is also the editor for a series of picture book biographies under the Who HQ brand and is open to select original middle grade and YA projects. When she is not editing, she is probably hanging out with her cats, working on a sewing project, and thinking entirely too much about Doctor Who.

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Sarah Sather, Assistant Editor

Tolani Osan — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:50:26 +0000

Sarah Sather (she/her) joined Nancy Paulsen Books as an Assistant Editor in June 2024. Previously, she worked at Netflix Animation, Marvel Comics, and Saturday Night Live. An avid reader since she could hold a book, Sarah is passionate about supporting and developing diverse content that re-centers marginalized voices, dissolves barriers, and expands the idea of who gets to be the hero of their story. She believes that books are a form of magic, and through them, one might even be able to radically transform the world.

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