Team Member

Jen Monroe joined Berkley in November 2016. She acquires psychological suspense/thrillers; dark, edgy book club women’s fiction; speculative fiction; and narrative nonfiction. Her recent and upcoming titles include My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing, How Quickly She Disappears by Raymond Fleischmann, and Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin. Previously, Jen spent two years at HarperAudio where she spearheaded original programming, and produced in-house podcast HarperAudio Presents.

Anne Sowards is Executive Editor at Berkley. She joined Berkley in 1996 and primarily acquires and edits fantasy and science fiction for Berkley’s Ace imprint. She has acquired and worked with many bestselling authors, including Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, Charlaine Harris, Anne Bishop, Jack Campbell, Rachel Caine, and Stephen R. Donaldson.

Some of her recent and upcoming titles include: Next Year in Havana, A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, and When We Left Cuba, both by New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton; The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey; The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher; and The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman.

Danielle Perez joined Berkley in 2010 as an Executive Editor, and she focuses on commercial and upmarket commercial fiction, including suspense, psychological suspense, thrillers, contemporary women’s fiction and book club fiction. Before joining Berkley, she was a Senior Editor at Bantam, where she worked with New York Times bestselling authors Tami Hoag, Harlan Coben and Jonathan Tropper.

Executive Editor Kerry Donovan joined Berkley in 2004. She acquires upmarket commercial fiction, historical fiction, and romance. Recent and forthcoming titles include Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West, You Were There Too by Colleen Oakley, The Antidote for Everything by Kimmery Martin, and Well Met by Jen DeLuca.

Tracy Bernstein is Executive Editor at Berkley. She began her career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux before finding her natural habitat at more commercial publishers like Kensington and Pocket Books. She joined New American Library in 2002 and, despite a fear of driving, merged smoothly into the Berkley lane. In addition to overseeing the Signet Classics line and the extensive Berkley backlist, she acquires and edits fiction, memoir, and true crime. The New York Times-bestselling authors she has worked with include Jen Lancaster, Montel Williams and Al Roker.

Executive Editor Amanda Bergeron joined Berkley in October 2016. She acquires upmarket commercial women’s fiction—both historical and contemporary—book club fiction, and psychological suspense. Some recent and upcoming titles include Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray, The Au Pair by Emma Rous, and Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen.