Meriam Metoui, Associate Editor

Meriam Metoui (she/her) is an associate editor at Viking Children’s Books, where she primarily edits pictures books and graphic novels of all ages. She especially loves lyrical or funny picture books, grim and adventurous middle grade, and a wide variety of young adult too difficult to narrow down but knows that she can’t resist emotional storytelling and has always had a soft spot for queer BIPOC stories, magical realism, and the slightly speculative.

Some of her titles include the graphic novel adaptations of #1 New York Times bestselling the Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater,  A Thousand Years by Christina Perri and New York Times bestselling illustrator Joy Hwang Ruiz, the Red Truck and Friends series by Kersten Hamilton and Valeria Petrone, and Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata. She graduated from the University of Michigan and Hunter College, where she received a master’s degree in English literature. As a serial hobbyist, she loves writing, photography, painting, learning ASL, playing the guitar badly, and too many TV shows to list.