Mia Council started at Penguin Press in 2017. Her list includes Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld, 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. She largely acquires 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.