March 26, 2014
MEET THE EDITORS
Sara Goodman is an editor at St. Martin’s Press. She’s been acquiring young adult and adult
fiction, including the occasional narrative non-fiction book, for over six years. Her authors
include Rainbow Rowell, whose young adult novel ELEANOR & PARK was a New York
Times bestseller, a New York Times notable, a Horn Book Award-winner, and Michael L. Printz
Honor book. She also works with the William C. Morris Awarding-winning author of CHARM
& STRANGE, Stephanie Kuehn, as well as Courtney Summers, Sarah McCarry, Camille
DeAngelis, and the international bestselling author Sarah Rayner. Sara is looking for well
written, vivid, voice-driven books in the adult, young adult, and narrative non-fiction categories.
She needs to feel like she’s reading something new and fresh, and is interested in smart,
compelling stories with authentic and diverse characters.
Ben Hyman, assistant editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, works closely with publisher Bruce
Nichols and editorial director Eamon Dolan on major nonfiction projects, as well as acquiring his
own list of titles. He recently published Rana Mitter’s history of China’s World War II,
FORGOTTEN ALLY (an Economist Best Book of 2013), and is at work on several forthcoming
titles, including a biography of Ludwig van Beethoven by PEN award-winner Jan Swafford,
bestselling author and gay rights activist Michelangelo Signorile’s provocative examination of
the failures of “tolerance,” and a debut novel by US Air Force officer Jesse Goolsby. Ben is
looking to acquire history, biography/memoir, and narrative nonfiction on a range of subjects —
including politics, medicine, the arts, psychology, and American society — as well as fiction that
is genre-bending, formally audacious, or both. A graduate of Brown University, with a degree in
comparative literature and international relations, he has also held internships at National Public
Radio and Oxford University Press.
Emi Ikkanda is an Associate Editor at Henry Holt & Company and her list includes Time
Magazine contributor Carla Power’s forthcoming book If The Oceans Were Ink, an eye-opening
memoir built around the year the secular journalist spent studying the Koran with her longtime
friend, the renowned Islamic scholar Mohammad Akram Nadwi. Emi has also worked on the
publication of books by President Jimmy Carter, John Banville, Bill McKibben, Rick Atkinson,
Tony Horwitz, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jill Abramson, and Elaine Sciolino. Emi pursues
nonfiction narratives, humorous or moving memoirs, and reportage projects that explore
subcultures, multiculturalism, race, science, war, history, adventure, food, and the arts. She is
also seeking upmarket voice-driven fiction, particularly novels with strong multicultural,
historical, mid-20th century noir, slipstream, or folktale elements. She is drawn to emotionally
rich stories that center on family secrets, loss, disappearances, or unusual friendships or
marriages. In fiction or nonfiction, she loves discovering a lost chapter in history, going on a
journey, and exploring hidden worlds.
Emily Krump is an Editor who has been with William Morrow since 2006. She works on a wide
range of projects, but is most passionate about smart, commercial fiction that focuses on family
and relationships, and select nonfiction (memoir, etiquette, true crime). Recent and upcoming
titles include DELIVER US by Kathryn Casey (true crime), DOG CRAZY by Meg Donohue
(novel), THE INVISIBLES by Cecilia Galante (novel), CROOKED RIVER by Valerie Geary
(novel), EMILY POST'S WEDDING ETIQUETTE, 6e and THE ETIQUETTE ADVANTAGE
IN BUSINESS, 3e by The Emily Post Institute (nonfiction), THE PROMISE OF STARDUST by
Priscille Sibley (novel), and THE SECRET OF THE NIGHTINGALE PALACE by Dana Sachs
(novel). Emily also acquires for Witness Impulse—William Morrow's digital-first mystery and
thriller line—and helps manage the list. She is particularly interested in psychological thrillers
and suspense with well-drawn characters that make readers think. Recent and upcoming titles
include BLESSED ARE THE DEAD by Kristi Belcamino, DARKNESS FIRST by James
Hayman, KILLER WASPS by Amy Korman, and THE PSALMIST by James Lilliefors.
Jeff Shreve is an assistant editor at W. W. Norton. He’s been at Norton since he interned there
with Bob Weil in 2009. His first acquisition, reporter Scott Johnson’s memoir The Wolf and the
Watchman, was longlisted for the National Book Award and completely ruined his sense of
perspective. He works in nonfiction at the moment—journalism, science, current affairs, history,
music—but some of his authors, Scott included, have begun to make fiction-like sounds. In a
previous life, he handled the booking and operation of a concert hall in midtown after graduating
from Columbia University as a music major. He’s a Minnesota native—don’t get him started on
the glory days of the Minnesota Twins.