Riverhead
Overview
Riverhead Books is a leading publisher of literary fiction and quality nonfiction. Since its inception in 1994, Riverhead has been devoted to publishing authors who change the conversation—urgent, unheard voices from a wide variety of backgrounds who have new perspectives and new stories to tell. Our books and authors have won or been finalists for the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award, the MacArthur “Genius Grant,” the Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and many other honors.
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Meet the Team
Geoffrey Kloske, President and Publisher
Geoffrey Kloske is the President and Publisher of Riverhead Books. The authors he has worked with have won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Nobel Prize.
Jynne Dilling Martin, Vice President and Deputy Publisher
Jynne Dilling Martin is the Deputy Publisher of Riverhead Books. She oversees the publicity and marketing teams and also acquires and edits a range of fiction and nonfiction titles. She has spearheaded the campaigns for dozens of award-winning, New York Times bestselling books.
Ashley Garland, Publicity Director
Ashley Garland has worked on dozens of national media campaigns for award-winning and New York Times bestselling Riverhead authors including James McBride, Daniel Pink, Anne Lamott, Danzy Senna, Michele Harper, and Randall Munroe.
Nora Alice Demick, Director of Marketing
Nora Alice Demick leads the marketing team and has built numerous campaigns for bestselling and award-winning authors including Marlon James, Randall Munroe, Jerry Saltz, Emma Straub, and Hernan Diaz, among others.
Sarah McGrath, Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief
Sarah McGrath has acquired and edited a range of fiction and select nonfiction for Riverhead since 2006. The editor of multiple #1 New York Times bestsellers, she has seen her authors named winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the NBCC Award, the Women’s Prize, the Story Prize, and the MacArthur “Genius Grant.”
Sarah's Featured Titles
Rebecca Saletan, Vice President and Editorial Director
Becky Saletan edits a wide range of literary nonfiction and fiction, with emphasis on underrepresented and global voices and perspectives. The writers with whom she has worked include Nobelist and International Booker Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, Nobelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, National Book Award winner Masha Gessen, two-time Booker Prize finalist Mohsin Hamid, and Women’s Prize winner Kamila Shamsie.
Rebecca's Featured Titles
Jake Morrissey, Executive Editor
Jake Morrissey publishes both fiction and nonfiction in history, science, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and literary and historical fiction. He works with a wide range of bestselling and award-winning authors, including Daniel H. Pink, Anne Lamott, James McBride, Priya Parker, Michele Harper, and Marlon James, with whom he cohosts the podcast Marlon & Jake Read Dead People.
Jake's Featured Titles
Courtney Young, Executive Editor
Courtney Young specializes in entertaining and idea-driven nonfiction with a focus on natural and social science, business, technology, culture, and narrative journalism. She has edited books by a number of award-winning and bestselling authors, including Gretchen McCulloch, David Epstein, James Nestor, Carlo Rovelli, Jing Tsu, Juli Berwald, and xkcd creator Randall Munroe.
Courtney's Featured Titles
Han Zhang, Editor at Large
Han Zhang is working to introduce contemporary Chinese-language literary works to English readers. She has acquired and edited novels and story collections from award-winning international authors such as Zhang Yueran. As a journalist, she has written about the political and literary narratives that have shaped Chinese culture and identities for the New Yorker and the New York Times magazine.
Han's Featured Titles
Alison Fairbrother, Associate Editor
Alison Fairbrother edits and acquires fiction, memoir, and select narrative nonfiction. She has worked with New York Times bestselling and award winning authors, including Kristen Arnett, Aja Gabel, Anna Hogeland, R.O. Kwon, and Jenny Xie. Alison’s own debut novel, The Catch, was published by Random House in 2022.
Alison's Featured Titles
Parisa Ebrahimi, Vice President and Executive Editor
Parisa began her career at Chatto & Windus in London, where she worked for ten years editing fiction, nonfiction, and an award-winning poetry list. In 2017, she moved to New York to join Hogarth Books, where her authors included the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Han Kang, Anuk Arudpragasam, Sarah Manguso, Heidi Julavits, Xuan Juliana Wang, Lillian Fishman, Khashayar Khabushani and Sanae Lemoine, among many others. The titles she has edited have been awarded or finalists for the Nobel Prize for Literature, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, the PEN Awards, and the Prix Goncourt (France).