Helen Rouner is an Editor at Penguin Press, where she was named Publishers Weekly’s Star Watch “Superstar” in 2025. Her list includes books by Spencer Ackerman, Max Chafkin, Lauren Christensen, Michael Clune, Bruce Feiler, Mark Ford, and Ernest Freeberg, among others, and she works on the Significations series curated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She is a graduate of Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and the Columbia Publishing Course, and her writing has appeared online in The Paris Review. She lives in her hometown of Brooklyn.