Mia Council, Editor

Mia Council started at Penguin Press in 2017. Her list includes Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld and the forthcoming Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs by Benjamin Herold and My First Book by Honor Levy. She is a graduate of Smith College and the Columbia Publishing Course and is a Virginia native now living in Brooklyn. She acquires largely nonfiction, and some of her favorite books as a reader are Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks, 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, and Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant.