Tarini Sipahimalani, Associate Editor

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.

She has edited and published multiple bestselling and award-winning authors. Her recent and upcoming titles include Kirsten King’s A Good Person, in adaptation for film starring Daisy Edgar Jones; Kazumasa Hayami’s How Can My Manager Be So Stupid?, the Japanese bestseller with over half a million copies sold; Chip Pons’s Dearly Departed, an instant USA Today bestseller; award-winning writer Laura Sims’s The Man; Shoshana von Blanckensee’s Girls Girls Girls, finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award; horror film critic Desirée de Fez’s Don’t Leave Her Alone, an instant Spanish bestseller; and Sonoko Machida’s million-copy bestselling masterpiece The Woman, the Boy, and The Whale, the inspiration behind the critically acclaimed Japanese film 52 Hertz Whales.