Seema Mahanian rejoined Pamela Dorman Books/Viking as Senior Editor in 2023. She is drawn to character and voice-driven fiction, family sagas, friendship and coming-of-age stories, and novels that amplify underrepresented voices and examine identity and contemporary life. Seema was previously at Grand Central Publishing where she published New York Times bestsellers Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (a Reese’s Book Club pick) and What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster (a Read with Jenna pick). She edited 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award winner What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez, along with other award-winning and national book club pick authors including Janika Oza, Salma El-Wardany, Destiny O. Birdsong, and Yusef Salaam. She began her publishing career at Pamela Dorman Books and Scribner, but before editing books, she was selling them in a small seaside bookstore in her Australian hometown, which actually sounds like the perfect beginning to a novel.