Mia Council, Editor

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…

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Casey Denis, Editor

Casey Denis is an Editor at Penguin Press. She began her career in publishing at McGraw-Hill, and joined Penguin Press as an Editorial Assistant in 2015.

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William Heyward, Executive Editor

William Heyward is an Executive Editor at Penguin Press, where he acquires and edits a wide range of nonfiction and literary fiction. The authors he has edited and published include Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, James Shapiro, Jonathan Blitzer, Salvatore Scibona, Joshua Wong, Joana Avillez, Molly Young, Wolfram Eilenberger, Adrienne Raphel, Bo Seo, Yaroslav Trofimov, Elias…

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Emily Cunningham, Senior Editor

Emily Cunningham is a Senior Editor at Penguin Press, which she joined after more than four years at Harper. She began her publishing career at Grove/Atlantic. She is a native of the Boston area and lives in Brooklyn.

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John Burnham Schwartz, Editor-at-Large

John Burnham Schwartz is the author of six acclaimed novels, including The Red Daughter, The Commoner, and Reservation Road, which was made into a film based on his screenplay. A recipient of a Lyndhurst Prize for mastery in the art of fiction, his books have been translated into twenty languages, and he has done extensive…

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