Posts by Tarini Sipahimalani
Molly Donovan, Editorial Assistant
Molly Donovan joined Putnam in 2024 and works with Tara Singh Carlson. She enjoys upmarket commercial fiction across multiple genres, including speculative fiction, queer literature, and romance, layered with diverse cultural elements and experiences. Before joining Putnam, she worked at Springer Nature and Melville House, where she plucked Flux by Jinwoo Chong out of the slush pile,…
Read MoreBrianna Fairman, Assistant Editor
Brianna Fairman joined Putnam in 2024 and acquires a broad range of fiction across genres. She loves edgy, complex stories with a strong voice, and has a soft spot for brazen female characters, Gothic imagery, and themes of obsession and desire. Brianna is drawn towards curious and heartfelt nonfiction, including writing on science and nature,…
Read MoreLindsay Sagnette, Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Lindsay Sagnette joined Putnam in 2024. Prior to that she worked at Atria, where she helped the imprint achieve unprecedented commercial success, including overseeing the relaunch of Washington Square Press, and editing bestselling authors such as Rebecca Serle, Jamie Ford, Lisa Jewell, Patti Callahan Henry, and Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl. She also served…
Read MoreTarini Sipahimalani, Assistant Editor
Tarini Sipahimalani joined Putnam in 2021 and acquires bold, voice-driven upmarket fiction. She’s drawn to emotionally resonant and psychologically penetrating stories that speak to the universalities of the human experience, that don’t shy away from characters’ messy or darker depths, and narratives that heal, be it by connecting the peculiar with the sublime, a sweeping…
Read MoreAranya Jain, Assistant Editor
Aranya Jain joined Putnam in 2021 and acquires high-concept fiction, especially contemporary fantasy geared toward a commercial audience. She’s easily lured by a beguiling voice or an uncanny premise, something that unnerves, inspires whimsy, or expands our curiosity about the scope of the universe. Grounded fantasy, upmarket horror, mainstream science fiction, and literary speculative fiction…
Read MoreAshley Di Dio, Associate Editor
Ashley Di Dio joined Putnam in 2020 and publishes upmarket book club fiction across multiple genres that focuses on resilient characters, diverse perspectives, and asks big moral questions. Her nonfiction leans narrative in nature and includes memoir, self-help, psychology, and select history with a pop culture, millennial/gen-z, or feminist bent. Ashley has worked with New…
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