Laura Tisdel, Executive Editor

Laura Tisdel began her career as a publicist and then editor at Viking, and returned as an executive editor in 2015 after several years as an editor at Little, Brown and Company. She acquires literary fiction and is drawn to voice-driven stories and novels that communicate a strong sense of place or deep connection to an irresistible cast of characters. She also acquires narrative nonfiction and memoirs, and is particularly eager to find perspectives that provide a revealing, deep-dive look at undiscovered or overlooked subjects, books that deal with issues important to women and parents, and stories with a sense of humor.

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Allison Lorentzen, Executive Editor

Allison Lorentzen is an executive editor who joined Viking in 2012. She edits a range of literary and upmarket fiction and is often drawn to novels with memorable voices, a sense of humor, and settings that span the globe.

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Paul Slovak, Vice President and Executive Editor

Executive Editor Paul Slovak edits a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including memoir, cultural history, and natural history. In fiction, he is interested in writers who have exuberant, distinctive voices and the ability to find new ways of telling stories and fresh and surprising ways of imagining characters.

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Lindsay Prevette, Director of Publicity

Penguin Viking

Lindsay Prevette joined the Viking publicity department in 2006 and was named director of publicity in 2015. She has orchestrated publicity campaigns for numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Deborah Harkness’s All Souls Trilogy; Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; and The Signature of All Things; Lev Grossman’s The Magicians Trilogy; Give and Take by Adam Grant; Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber; and Bettyville by George Hodgman. Before joining Viking, she worked in publicity at Ballantine.

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Viking Books – Awards

Penguin Viking

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as quality translations by award-winning translators.

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Helen Healey-Cunningham, Executive Editor

Helen Healey Portrait

Since joining Sentinel in 2017, Helen has aimed to discover leaders, thinkers, and agitators who resist political orthodoxy and empower ordinary Americans. Serving a diverse range of readers, she enjoys editing movement-starting books about racial justice, economic justice, parenting, political powerbrokers, mental toughness, self-esteem, science, Christianity, and more.

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Bria Sandford, Executive Editor

Bria Sandford joined Sentinel in 2012. Fascinated by shifting political coalitions, she is drawn to counterintuitive takedowns of conventional wisdom. She enjoys editing a wide range of idea-driven nonfiction, with a focus on history, sociology, economics, and good old-fashioned polemic. Her bestselling and critically acclaimed authors include Brian Kilmeade, Rod Dreher, Reihan Salam, and Senator Mike Lee. She tweets at @blsandford.

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Niki Papadopoulos, VP and Editor in Chief

Niki Papadopoulos, Editorial Director

Tara Gilbride has over 20 years of experience promoting non-fiction authors and their books. As VP, Publicity Director, Associate Director of Marketing, she is in charge of helping authors find the largest readership possible through customized media and event outreach, creative online marketing campaigns and by generating innovative promotions that ignite preorder campaigns and reinvigorate backlist.

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Tara Gilbride, Vice President and Associate Publisher

Tara Gilbride, Vice President, Director of Marketing & Publicit

Tara Gilbride has over 20 years of experience promoting non-fiction authors and their books. As VP, Publicity Director, Associate Director of Marketing, she is in charge of helping authors find the largest readership possible through customized media and event outreach, creative online marketing campaigns and by generating innovative promotions that ignite preorder campaigns and reinvigorate backlist.

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Adrian Zackheim, Founder, President, and Publisher

Adrian Zackheim, Founder, President, and Publisher

Adrian Zackheim joined Penguin Group in September 2001 as Founder and Publisher of Portfolio. He then took on the additional challenge of starting Sentinel in April 2003. In 2018, he announced the addition of another new imprint to the group: The Optimism Press, in collaboration with Simon Sinek.

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